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Harvard Prof & Students Fight the RIAA Today

By soulxtc

Ask people to join them at the hearing in Rhode Island federal court. Today at a hearing in Rhode Island federal court, Harvard Law School Professor Charles Nesson and his team of students will defend Rhode Island residents Arthur and Judie Tenenbaum from the RIAA's infamous shakedown tactics. The Tenenbaums face legal pressure from the music industry's lawsuit against their son, Joel, a graduate student at Boston University accused of illegally sharing music files online.  Nesson and his team allege that the Recording Industry Association of America and a coalition of record companies are abusing the federal court system with their litigation tactics, which attempt to make an example out of Joel and his family in the name of “deterrence.”  Joel faces possible damages of more than $1 million for allegedly sharing seven songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).