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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @09:41AM (2 children)
Personally, if I got on the jury, when those guys come up with their ridiculous punishment for sharing a song, you better bet I am going to bring up "jury nullification" in deliberation.
We little guys have got to fight this thing, our lawmakers sure don't seem to match the punishment with the crime. Gee, I see politicians and executives do far more damaging stuff and just sweep it under the rug.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:38PM
So what do you do if they ask about *that* in voir dire? "No I haven't" then say when you bring it up later that you were curious and looked it up after they asked you?
Not making it onto a jury because you actually understand the legal process. What a country :P
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @08:45AM
Bring it up while you are sitting outside waiting. "Hey any of you guys heard of Jury Nullification? This guy was telling me about it, if you don't like the law you can vote to acquit even if you think he did it. He reckons the jury get to decide if the law is fair, as well as what the facts are."