Judge In Jammie Thomas Trial Seems Likely To Declare A Mistrial
In the ongoing saga of the Jammie Thomas trial, where the RIAA tried to get its first serious victory in court against an alleged file sharer, things may be looking a bit grim for the RIAA's argument....
View ArticleJudge Declares Mistrial In RIAA's Only Court Victory
The RIAA's only court victory in its years-long legal battle against individuals who engage in unauthorized file sharing has been declared a mistrial, and the $222,000 fine against Jammie Thomas has...
View ArticleRIAA Appeals Mistrial Ruling In The Jammie Thomas Trial
The RIAA seems so positively offended that its "making available" theory keeps getting rejected by courts that it's willing to object to just about anything. As you probably know, the RIAA's only...
View ArticlePirate Bay Trial In Sweden To Be Broadcast Online
We're getting close to the start of the big Pirate Bay trial in Sweden that hopefully will settle the question of whether or not running a torrent tracker search engine is legal in that country....
View ArticleProsecutors Drop Half The Charges Against The Pirate Bay
We avoided reporting on The Pirate Bay trial yesterday because not much of interest actually happened. It was (as The Pirate Bay folks intended) more of a spectacle than anything interesting. However,...
View ArticleWhen You Pick An Author To Represent Swedish Authors Angry At The Pirate Bay,...
Who knows who is actually going to win the trial of The Pirate Bay in Sweden, but you have to admit that the prosecution has been screwing up left and right. The latest is almost comical in its...
View ArticleProsecutors Change Pirate Bay Charges Again; Weak Evidence Exposed
Before the trial of The Pirate Bay started in Sweden, it seemed like the defendants were being a bit brash in declaring the whole trial a spectacle, with no real legal basis. While I have a difficult...
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay Closing Arguments: Since We Can't Get The Real Infringers, We...
As the closing arguments are being heard in The Pirate Bay lawsuit in Sweden, there seems to be some rather tortured reasoning by the entertainment industry that's quite troubling if the court accepts...
View ArticleJudge In Pirate Bay Case Appears To Have Ties To The Copyright Lobby
Via Martin Thornkvist, we find out that Swedish Public radio has discovered that the judge in The Pirate Bay case apparently has some ties to the copyright lobby (that's a Google translation -- if you...
View ArticleIFPI Using Disputed Pirate Bay Verdict To Claim Web Hosting Companies Are Liable
After the entertainment industry partially won its Supreme Court decision against Grokster, it didn't take long at all for the RIAA to start claiming the ruling said stuff it didn't. Specifically, the...
View ArticleSuggestion: Don't Text Message Your Boss While On The Witness Stand
We recently wrote about a trial where there were concerns that a jury member was sending Twitter messages during the trial, but that's nothing compared to text messaging while on the witness stand....
View ArticlePirate Bay Appeal To Be Heard By Judge Tied To Copyright Group As Well
As The Pirate Bay gears up for the appeal of its trial in Sweden, it's worth noting that the judge chosen to hear the trial happens to be the same one who was removed from reviewing the fairness of...
View ArticleIs Ignoring RIAA Lawsuit Cheaper Than Going To Trial?
A bunch of folks have been sending in Nate Anderson's article about how ignoring an RIAA lawsuit may be "cheaper" than going to trial. It makes for a nice storyline, but it's really not entirely...
View ArticleBlagojevich Ordered Not To Live Tweet His Own Trial
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich hasn't exactly been one to stay quiet since being removed from office and charged with corruption. If anything, he's worked hard to make sure that the limelight...
View ArticleJudge Will Review If Apple/Samsung Jury Foreman Withheld Pertinent Info
After the jury decision in the Apple/Samsung patent fight in the US came out, lots of people pointed to statements from the foreman of the jury, Vel Hogan, that raised serious questions about Hogan's...
View ArticleCrowdfunded Stenographer Denied Press Pass To Cover Transcriptless Bradley...
The attempts to limit the press during the Bradley Manning trial have been somewhat ridiculous. The press hasn't been allowed to record anything, even though someone clearly did so surreptitiously....
View ArticleAdrian Lamo On The Stand: 'Did Manning Ever Say He Wanted To Help The...
Bradley Manning is currently on trial, charged with "aiding an enemy" (including "classified" enemies) for turning over sensitive documents to Wikileaks. As Mike pointed out earlier, this latter...
View ArticleDOJ Tries, But Fails, To Delay ACLU Lawsuit Over NSA Spying
The Justice Department desperately tried to delay the ACLU's recently filed lawsuit over the NSA's surveillance efforts. The DOJ claimed that, since the intelligence agencies have been working to...
View ArticleGovernment Argues Bradley Manning Was An Anarchist, As Case Closes
We haven't been covering the day to day of the Bradley Manning trial, though it has been interesting (and frustrating) to follow. However, in its closing argument, it appears that the government is...
View ArticleIf Snowden Returned To US For Trial, All Whistleblower Evidence Would Likely...
There seems to be a new talking point from government officials since a federal judge ruled NSA surveillance is likely unconstitutional last week: if Edward Snowden thinks he's a whistleblower, he...
View ArticleJudge Responds To Ross Ulbricht's Request For A New Trial: Ha Ha Ha Ha, No.
This is not a huge surprise, but the judge who oversaw Ross Ulbricht's trial for being the guy behind the original Silk Road wasted very little time in flat out rejecting his request for a new trial....
View ArticleTrial Set To Start For Journalist Facing Decades In Prison For Covering...
There's little more chilling to First Amendment freedoms than the possibility of spending decades in jail for documenting a protest that turned into a riot. But that's exactly what independent...
View ArticleFCC Wants Delay In Net Neutrality Trial Due To Government Shutdown, But Isn't...
The FCC is requesting a delay in the opening arguments in the looming lawsuit over the agency's repeal of net neutrality rules, citing the government shutdown as justification. Oral arguments are...
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