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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: 1, Troll) by barbara hudson on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:23PM (5 children)
A jury of your peers originally meant "a jury of your betters." Think UK class hierarchy. Only the peerage were allowed to sit on a jury and judge you, not your equals. Because, after all, what do we plebes know?
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:34PM (4 children)
You have a citation for that? Because this is the first result I got when I did a search:
which doesn't necessarily mean commoners were *also* tried by nobles. In fact, not being tried by the king suggests that the point was explicitly that you *couldn't* be tried by your social betters.
https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/what-is-a-jury-of-peers.html [findlaw.com]
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Troll) by barbara hudson on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:39PM (3 children)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:43PM (2 children)
You didn't answer my request for a source either.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Troll) by barbara hudson on Tuesday February 04 2020, @05:03PM (1 child)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday February 04 2020, @05:49PM
Mileage indeed varies depending on location. I'm under the impression that the K-12 curriculum in Detroit, Michigan, teaches more about the history of faraway Texas, California, and Hawaii than the history of physically neighboring Windsor, Ontario. This is purely because of the international border between the two, which immigration law and culture deem to trump physical distance.