The way the RIAA sues you for downloading music is extremely cunning. As Judge Nancy Gertner puts it, it’s like squeezing water out of a rock. They sue you, an amount that is large, but still smaller than what it would take to actually fight it out in court. You settle because that is the [...]
[Quick daily thought]
Posted by Debbie Rosenbaum
so we’re trying to get copies of depositions that were taken of the Tenenbaums. turns out they are hundreds of dollars a piece. whhhaaatttt?
gosh, lawsuits are expensive.
Lory Lybeck of Lybeck Murphy, LLP sent the following e-mail to Prof. Nesson on Sunday, March 22, 2009.
Professor Nesson:
After reading the unfortunate response from the DOJ I have a few random thoughts. First-off, the financial bailout of a select few of the corporate financial giants makes it easier to utter the “T” trillion word [...]
Forgive us for lack of updates, but it’s spring break week and hopefully we can use this time to get more information on the site. We have brought our timeline up to date on the main docket in Massachusetts (the main case of Joel v. the recording industry) but still have to add details about [...]
Posted by Debbie Rosenbaum for Professor Nesson
Make no mistake about it: we are a student run team.
As students, and under the guidance of Professor Nesson, we write all of our own briefs, create our own strategy, and deal directly with the RIAA’s litigation machine.
It is with great excitement that we’ve asked life-long Boston litigator, Matt [...]
Posted by Professor Nesson
We filed this apology to the court today.
Dear Judge Gertner
I made a mistake by not withdrawing my motion to compel Matt Oppenheim’s deposition immediately after the January 22 date had passed. I acknowledge and apologize for this, both to you and to my opponents. I wasted the Court’s time. [...]
Posted by Debbie Rosenbaum
From “Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2” by Negativland (a book my manfriend is reading for his copyright class at Rutgers Law)
“One basic failing of the U.S. legal system is that it treats the plaintiff and the defendant as though they are [...]
Posted by Debbie Rosenbaum
To date, the most memorable moment of working on this case occurred at the end of last semester. I had had 2 finals and a 30-page paper due on Net Neutrality in a three day time span last December around the time we were set to go to Rhode [...]
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