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Comment Wanking aside, (Score 2, Interesting) 221

by dysomniak on Saturday December 27, 2008 @03:06PM (#26243199) Attached to: RIAA Case May Be Televised On Internet

This is not how they do things in the real world. The defendants are going to have to convince the judge that there is some legal reason to broadcast the proceedings, and that they are not just trying to turn the courtroom into a soapbox. Good luck.

RIAA Case May Be Televised On Internet 221

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 27, 2008 @02:30PM from the court-documents-likening-the-riaa-to-vampires dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Boston case in which the defendant is represented by Prof. Charles Nesson and his CyberLaw class at Harvard Law School, the defendant has requested that audio-visual coverage of the court proceedings be made available to the public via the internet. Taking the RIAA at its word — that the reason for its litigation program is to 'educate the public' — the defendant's motion (PDF) queries why the RIAA would oppose public access: 'Net access to this litigation will allow an interested and growingly sophisticated public to understand the RIAA's education campaign. Surely education is the purpose of the Digital Deterrence Act of 1999, the constitutionality of which we are challenging. How can RIAA object? Yet they do, fear of sunlight shone upon them.'"

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