The Obama administration is backing the verdict awarding $675,000 in damages to the RIAA in the case of Sony v. Tenenbaum, the second-ever US case where an individual was tried for copyright infringement. The Justice Department, in a memorandum in response to the defendant’s motion for a new trial, said copyright infringement “creates a public [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Charles Nesson, the defense attorney in the case of Sony v. Tenenbaum, the second ever P2P civil trial, is possibly the most entertaining lawyer of all time. First he started asking potential jurors about turtlenecks, then he got bizarrely existential and now he’s asking for a re-trial, saying piracy is the music industry’s fault… for [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
In the aftermath of Sony v. Tenenbaum, the Boston RIAA case in which the defendant admitted liability and the Court awarded $625,000 to the RIAA, the Court is questioning whether these six-to-seven-figure awards are excessive and should be reduced in certain scenarios. From Slashdot: However, the Court left open the questions of whether the amount [...]
Monday, August 3, 2009
Sony v. Tenenbaum, only the second copyright infringement case brought to trial out of approximately 18,000 individuals targeted by the RIAA, concluded late Friday afternoon with the RIAA awarded a penalty of $675,000. That’s a tough pill for a Boston University graduate student to swallow, though significantly less than the $1.92 million Jammie Thomas-Rasset currently [...]
Friday, July 31, 2009
The case of Sony v. Tenenbaum is rushing to a swift end (as expected) as Judge Nancy Gertner granted the record labels’ motion for a directed verdict on the issue of copyright infringement last night. Tenenbaum is now liable for infringing all 30 songs at issue. All that will be left to the jury is [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
While the second-ever P2P civil trial took significantly longer than its predecessor to settle on a jury, the case of Sony V. Tenenbaum is racing to a much speedier finish than the drawn out, appealed Captiol v. Thomas-Rasset. Of course it always helps speed up a trial when your defense attorney is admitting liability by [...]
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
One month after the Jammie Thomas-Rasset was ordered by the court to pay nearly $2 million in fines to Capitol, another major RIAA copyright case has begun in Boston, and this one’s already wacky. While the Thomas-Rasset case managed to select its jury in an hour and a half, the defense for Boston University graduate [...]
Roadrunner U.K. is offering fans a free download of Black Label Society’s new song “Crazy Horse.”
John 5 has uploaded a tour poster for Rob Zombie’s upcoming Fall tour with Alice Cooper and the Murderdolls.
You might not have been able to see Heaven & Hell’s tribute performance to Ronnie James Dio at London’s High Voltage festival, but now you can listen to audio of the entire set online.
Mushroomhead has revealed the cover artwork and track listing to their new album Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children, set to be released on September 28 via Megaforce Records.
Avenged Sevenfold will be holding a live webcam chat today (July 29) at 5pm Eastern with fan via UStream.
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