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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, Informative) by barbara hudson on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:34PM
Attorneys don't get to give jury instructions, just judges. They fucked up on that one. Same as judges give instructions on what the law says. The judge says what the law is, the jury says what the facts are. Judge: "This is what constitutes 1st degree murder. This is what constitutes 2nd degree murder. This is what constitutes manslaughter." Jury: "we find that in fact the defendant did/didn't commit the crime of [insert charge]."
Attorneys can argue that the facts support/don't support a particular finding, but only the judge can instruct the jury as to what the law actually means.
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