The case of Arista vs Limewire has been officially granted a place on the docket in the state of New York. Limewire had asked previously for a jury trial, rejecting any chance to settle in the face of a civil copyright infringement lawsuit as many other P2P companies have.
The schedule for the Limewire case will ensure that armchair lawyers and pundits have plenty to talk about over the next year. No trial date is set, but any additional plaintiffs must be on board by January 31st and depositions must be completed by July 13th of 2007. Any expert witnesses must be registered with the court by 5/16/2007.
Limewire counter-filed against the RIAA in a rather bold move back in September. The filing really called the RIAA to the carpet over stifling innovation, and whether Limewire’s business model is wrong or right, they certainly nailed the RIAA in prose, “This case is but one part of a much larger modern conspiracy to destroy all innovation that content owners cannot control and that disrupts their historical business models. In recent years copyright owners have tried to prevent the exploitation of new technology by suing makers of software, makers of devices that play music (”RIAA vs. Diamond Multimedia Systems), ISPs, Internet search engines, venture capitalists that invest in internet companies(Hummer Winblad) [...] Their goal is quite simple: to prevent the development of any technology — even the internet — that is not designed and organized to control piracy”
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