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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: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Tuesday February 04 2020, @11:37AM (2 children)
- have you ever downloaded content from any BitTorrent website?
- do you know what a linux ISO is?
- Have you ever read or visited Ars Technica or TorrentFreak?
- have you ever listened to what your ceo says? have you ever misrepresented a deal to a content creator? have you ever lied or deprived somebody of proceedings in the context of your work?
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Tuesday February 04 2020, @12:08PM (1 child)
Nor do I believe they can truthfully answer if they always come to full stops at stop signs, yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk, never use phone while driving, cheat on their tax, lied on business forms - especially in a required field, cheated a pay toilet, never pissed on anything other than approved receptacle, never spat in sidewalk, peed in the pool....need I go on?
There is something wrong with summoning prospective jurors and forcing them to lie under oath concerning petty crap like this.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 04 2020, @04:24PM
Only if they were a lawyer and gave their consent.
The thing about landline phones is that they never get lost. No air tag necessary.