Ask people to join them at the hearing in Rhode Island federal court.
Today at a hearing in Rhode Island federal court, Harvard Law School Professor Charles Nesson and his team of students will defend Rhode Island residents Arthur and Judie Tenenbaum from the RIAA’s infamous shakedown tactics. The Tenenbaums face legal pressure from the music industry’s lawsuit against their son, Joel, a graduate student at Boston University accused of illegally sharing music files online.
Nesson and his team allege that the Recording Industry Association of America and a coalition of record companies are abusing the federal court system with their litigation tactics, which attempt to make an example out of Joel and his family in the name of “deterrence.” Joel faces possible damages of more than $1 million for allegedly sharing seven songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network.
The Dec. 15 hearing will address the recording industry’s motion to force Arthur and Judie to produce their home computer so that it can be inspected for evidence of copyright infringement. The computer is not the device on which the alleged downloading took place, and Arthur and Judie did not own the computer when Joel lived with them.
“The basic rules of evidence suggest that this invasion of privacy is both unnecessary and absurd,” said Matt Sanchez, one of Nesson’s students working on the case. “This hearing isn’t only about Joel’s parents. It’s also about finally putting up a fight against the recording industry’s intimidation practices.”
The hearing is scheduled for today at 7a.m. ESTat the Federal Building and Courthouse, One Exchange Terrace, Providence, RI 02903 in Courtroom A, before Magistrate Judge Lincoln D. Almond.
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go Good Guys!!!
If they win this it could spell big consequences for further lawsuits. If they can establish that the RIAA are improperly using the courts how boy.