Good article in "Computer World" on SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum case
By Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman
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!--google_ad_section_start--pCame across a good article by Jay Vijayan of Computer World, about the a href="http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/01/index-of-litigation-documents.html#SONY_v_Tenenbaum"SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum/a case:blockquotebTarget of RIAA lawsuit says music piracy case has been an ordeal/bbr /College student Joel Tenenbaum claims trade group wanted to make an example of himbr /By Jaikumar Vijayanbr /br /December 19, 2008 (Computerworld) To hear Joel Tenenbaum's version of the story, at least, it isn't hard to see why the Recording Industry Association of America's campaign against music piracy has earned the RIAA so many enemies ? perhaps contributing to the trade group's decision this week to stop filing lawsuits against people like Tenenbaum.br /br /Tenenbaum, who turns 25 on Christmas day, is a doctoral student in physics at Boston University. He also is involved in a high-profile legal fight with the RIAA for allegedly downloading and distributing songs belonging to several music labels. The recording companies claim to have discovered more than 800 songs stored illegally in a shared folder on Tenenbaum's computer, although the RIAA's case against him only identifies seven of the songs.br /br /The RIAA says that despite its change in strategy, it doesn't plan to drop existing lawsuits. If found guilty of willful copyright infringement, Tenenbaum faces financial penalties that could exceed $1 million dollars ? $150,000 per song, the maximum fine allowed by the federal statute under which he is being sued./blockquotea href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9124118intsrc=hm_list"Complete article/abr /br /!--a href="http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Lawyer_Copyright_Internet_Law/.pdf"/aa href="http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Lawyer_Copyright_Internet_Law/.pdf"/aa href="http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Lawyer_Copyright_Internet_Law/.pdf"/a--!--google_ad_section_end--!--a href="http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename="*/a--!--p* Document published online at a href="http://ilrweb.com"Internet Law Regulation/a--!--pCommentary discussion:pa href=""/a--!--pcentera href=""img src="http://images.slashdot.org/sdit4n.png"/a/center--!--center pa href="http://www.digg.com"img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button.gif" width="91" height="17" alt="Digg!" //a/center--!--pcentera href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/riaa"img src="http://ohioelection2004.com/ImageHost/riaaexpertwitnessdefensefunddonate3.PNG" width=150/a/center--brbrfont size="-2"Keywords: lawyer digital copyright law online internet law legal download upload peer to peer p2p file sharing filesharing music movies indie independent label freeculture creative commons pop/rock artists riaa independent mp3 cd favorite songs intellectual property portable music player/font!--SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR LINDOR CASE ONLY--!--centerTo contribute to Marie Lindor's legal defense, see below.form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"input type="hidden" name="business" value="wraymond@hotmail.com"input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Marie Lindor legal Defense Fund (wraymond@hotmail.com)"input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_promo_code" value=""input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_product_category" value=""input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_shipping_method" value=""input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_user_address_change" value=""input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0"input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0"input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US"input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-DonationsBF"input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"br /img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"/form/centerbrThe above donation button links to a PayPal account established by Marie Lindor's family for people who may wish to make financial contributions to Ms. Lindor's legal defense in a href="http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/01/index-of-litigation-documents.html#UMG_v_Lindor"UMG v. Lindor/a. Contributions are not tax deductible.--
