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Submission + - Ohio University finds key to getting RIAA to stop 7

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @03:26PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, has found the key to getting the RIAA to stop inundating it and its students with "settlement" letters. According to the university's student online publication, the university paid $60,000, plus $16,000 per year "maintenance", to Audible Magic, the business partner of the RIAA's all-purpose expert witness Dr. Doug Jacobson, for its "CopySense" filtering software. Once it made the payments, the letters stopped. This of course raises a lot of questions as to the 'disinterestedness' of Dr. Jacobson, whose deposition in the UMG v. Lindor case was the subject of interesting Slashdot commentary."

Submission + - Supreme Court Refuses 200 Year Porn Sentence

Submitted by

Class Act Dynamo

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @03:14AM

Class Act Dynamo writes: "The United States Supreme Court today refused to hear the appeal of a high school teacher who was sentenced to over 200 years in prison for possessing thousands of child pornography images in Arizona. The justices declined without comment to hear the case. His attorneys argued that the sentence (10 years per image for the 20 images presumably leading to indictment) was disproportionate to the crime. I put this under Your Rights Online even though those rights really don't include possessing child pornography. However, what do Slashdotters think? Was the punishment appropriate for the crime? Think of the children!..but not in the way that this teacher apparently was."

Submission + - Boycott the RIAA in March

Submitted by n0tWorthy on Monday February 26, 2007 @01:55PM

n0tWorthy writes: Gizmodo is starting up a boycott of RIAA sponsored music for the month of March. I think the entire slashdot community could and should get behind this one! Come on SlashDot, let's kick the RIAA's a$$!!

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