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marieToo -> RE: Dinosaur Discovered Alive in Michigan, Gets Job at RIAA (10/12/2007 5:13:58 AM)
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ORIGINAL: selfbnd411
And he's been bought and paid for by the RIAA! For those that don't know, a single mother of two children who earns less than $40,000/yr was sued by the record industry for sharing 23 songs. The jury found her liable and awarded the major labels $220,000. The truth is slowly coming out: the RIAA's lawyers cherry-picked a jury of clods: prospective jurors were specifically asked if they owned computers or had been on the internet, and only the most technologically ignorant were empaneled. This allowed the RIAA to snow the jurors, who lacked even basic knowledge about computers and networking. For example, the RIAA's computer expert (a professor of computer science from Iowa...hired gun) testified that the defense's theory that someone could have hopped on to the defendant's wireless router was impossible. Why? Because if she had had a wireless router, her IP would have begun with 192.168. Um....every 5 year old knows that the router IP is only seen by your cable modem. The IP that gets reported to the world is the cable modem's IP, not the router.
Wired did an interview with one juror, Michael Hegg, a 38 year old steelworker who admits that he has never been on the internet.
Never been on the internet? Score one for the RIAA for successfully finding a real live dinosaur!
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/riaa-juror-we-w.html
Both counsel have the opportunity to pick the jury, actually.
And FDD is correct. A lawyer's hourly fee isn't commisurate with their skill or lack thereof. It's more like a 'going rate' for the area they practice in. (Unless of course you're talking about famous attorneys)
Besides, even a good lawyer (if you can actually find one) only has so much control over this shit. As much as we would like to believe in our legal system, justice has no place in a courtroom and legal statute actually has very little to do with any of it. It's mostly strategy, the art of bullshit, whether or not you get a judge with a brain, and luck falling in on your side on any one given day.
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