RIAA Lobbyist Turned Judge Backpedals On BitTorrent Cases - GoFuckYourself.com

gideongallery · 04-09-2011, 06:01 AM

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In the ongoing mass-BitTorrent lawsuits, last month U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell laid down a landmark verdict in favor of copyright holders. The verdict was widely publicized, but put in doubt after it was uncovered that the Judge was a former RIAA lobbyist. This critique appears to have had an effect. In two new orders in the same cases, Howell has now backpedaled on her earlier stance.

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-lobbyis...-cases-110408/

for all of you guys who were celerbrating these bogus rulings.

jigg · 04-09-2011, 06:41 AM

aaah... and she didn't think to recuse herself? Not very ethical

iamtam · 04-09-2011, 09:08 AM

torrent freak isnt a credible news source. you might as well talk the to owners of the pirate bay.

gideongallery · 04-10-2011, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by iamtam

torrent freak isnt a credible news source. you might as well talk the to owners of the pirate bay.

interesting that when people were bragging about the ruling, and using it to call me out it was good enough but now that it being used to refute that it not

oh well

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/...-Sharing-Cases

for you guys that think that torrent freak is not a worthy news source here is another
Ars Technica did an article
along with 1/2 dozen other technology news sites.

TheDoc · 04-10-2011, 06:57 PM

"Beryl Howell isn't the only judge to believe this...."

gideongallery · 04-10-2011, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by iamtam

torrent freak isnt a credible news source. you might as well talk the to owners of the pirate bay.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...ring-cases.ars

arstechnica article

blackmonsters · 04-10-2011, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by gideongallery

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-lobbyis...-cases-110408/

for all of you guys who were celerbrating these bogus rulings.

gideongallery · 04-10-2011, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDoc

"Beryl Howell isn't the only judge to believe this...."

really want to name one who ruled this way after Federal judge Milton Shadur declared

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"No predicate has been shown for thus combining 300 separate actions on the cheap. If CP had sued the 300 claimed infringers separately for their discrete infringements, the filing fees alone would have aggregated $105,000 rather than $350."

while you might be able to find judges who ruled this way before the federal ruling, (before the precedent was set) she is the first judge and currently only judge who has over ridden that ruling.

she now backpeddled .

gideongallery · 04-10-2011, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by blackmonsters

you do realize you just gave them more link juice by quoting the link right.

blackmonsters · 04-10-2011, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by gideongallery

you do realize you just gave them more link juice by quoting the link right.

04-09-2011, 06:41 AM	#2
jigg Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,527	aaah... and she didn't think to recuse herself? Not very ethical __________________ ...... eight,eight,two,eight,eight,four,two ......

04-10-2011, 06:57 PM	#5
TheDoc Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Currently Incognito Posts: 13,827	"Beryl Howell isn't the only judge to believe this...." __________________ ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825 It's all disambiguation

04-09-2011, 09:08 AM	#3
iamtam So Fucking Banned Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,211	torrent freak isnt a credible news source. you might as well talk the to owners of the pirate bay.