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Music-industry lawyers plan to ask potential jurors in a piracy case whether they read Ars Technica.
"Have you ever read or visited Ars Technica or TorrentFreak?" is one of 40 voir dire questions that plaintiffs propose to ask prospective jurors in their case against Grande Communications, an Internet service provider accused of aiding its customers' piracy, according to a court filing on Friday.
[...] Record-label attorneys also want to ask potential jurors if they "know what a peer-to-peer network is," have "ever downloaded content from any BitTorrent website" such as The Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents, obtained music or video from "any stream-ripping service," been "accused of infringing a copyright," or "ever been a member, contributor or supporter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation."
The full list of questions by each party were made available by TorrentFreak as pdfs:
Have you now, or ever been, a member of the Pirate Party?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Tuesday February 04 2020, @09:05AM (4 children)
Should the laws be democratically determined by common population, thus reflect population behavioral habits, or should the laws be dictated and enforced only by strong elite?
The oldest historical writ of Czech nation, known as Dalimilova kronika[1] states about us:
súdcěv niejmiejiechu, nebo sobě niekradiechu
They have no judges, because they don't steal from each other.
It's a huge cultural regress what happened to us since that times, under the rule of Franks, Saxons and Jews.
Chaotic Good is better than Lawful Evil. This is the rule what should be applied to software or music industry.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle_of_Dalimil [wikipedia.org]
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 04 2020, @04:00PM
You cannot police people more than they want to be policed. Eventually something will break. The
downloadinginhaling will be legalized.The thing about landline phones is that they never get lost. No air tag necessary.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @07:28PM (2 children)
The "strong elite" is a tiny group that is too disconnected from ordinary struggles.
The "common population" includes a lot of idiots and parasites. Many seem to think we can fix things by just printing money and handing it out. They'd vote for more of other people's money until that runs out and the true face of socialism/communism (death camps) makes it too late to do a damn thing.
Law should come from all the people who have their shit together and have a stake in the future of the country. These are people who support families without reliance on government assistance.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday February 05 2020, @07:27AM
And yet we routinely allow banks to loan out money that they don't actually have.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday February 05 2020, @10:27PM
Let me guess - you're a Libertarian? Certainly not a True Americantm(A government for the people, by the people)...
Why should the general population agree to a set of laws that they have no say in? That's serfdom. Tried before - didn't work out so well.
Also, the people that you claim to 'have their shit together' are often just Robber Barons who fuck everyone over for their own gain. Think GFC bankers, Purdue Pharma, Private Prison owners who buy new laws to keep their prisons full, etc. They don't care one whit for the future of the country - they care only for themselves. See: Monsanto/Bayer, Exxon, every single elected official who is wilfully ignoring the need to take action against climate change.