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EFF shoots down "making available" argument in Jammie Thomas case

article published on 23 June, 2008

Last week we told you about briefs filed both for and against Jammie Thomas in her quest to get a new trial for alleged copyright violations from sharing songs via P2P. In addition to the MPAA and respected copyright scholars, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has also filed a "friend of the court" brief. Not surprisingly the public interest group makes arguments specifically addressing ... [ read the full article ]

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ZippyDSM

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23. June 2008 @ 12:53

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Distribution alone is not something they can win on,they need to focus more on "illicit profit" than simply "making available"

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nobrainer

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23. June 2008 @ 12:58

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so the average user installs a piece of software that a site requires to download their 100% legal material and the shared folder is automatically added, which the user is using to send media around their home and unknowing to the user its uploaded all files in this folder including the DRM'ed downloaded digital media, & as its against the law to circumvent the DRM on the digital files they are unable to burn it to a disc so the only way to play it is via the network but at the same time the software has shared the copywrited media to a file sharing network and is hunted down and hung drawn and quartered by the riaa/mpaa even though not a single byte had left her system!

MPAA: actual P2P distribution often "impossible" to prove

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Copyright holders shouldn't have to prove that an unauthorized distribution of their work occurred in order to collect damages, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.

these companies behind the MPAA/RIAA Ect, really will face a slow painful death one ppl know who the are and they are no longer able to hide behind the **AA titles.

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