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Record Labels to Ask Potential Jurors: Have You Ever Read or Visited Ars Technica or TorrentFreak?

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 04 2020, @06:33AM   
from the Have-you-ever-read-a-book,-magazine,-or-newspaper?-Which-ones? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Ars Technica:

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:

• Questions by the record labels.
• Questions by Grande Communications.

Have you now, or ever been, a member of the Pirate Party?

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• Re:So much for 'jury of your peers' Re:So much for 'jury of your peers' (Score: 1, Troll) by barbara hudson on Tuesday February 04 2020, @05:03PM (1 child)

  by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday February 04 2020, @05:03PM (#953651) Journal

  Why would I bother. Anyone with a decent high school education knows this (though YMMV depending on location). Get better teachers and don't skip classes. You never know what boring class can come in handy.

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• "World history" vs. "U.S. history" (Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday February 04 2020, @05:49PM

  by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday February 04 2020, @05:49PM (#953669) Journal

  Anyone with a decent high school education knows [the history of the powers of the English monarchy] (though YMMV depending on location).

  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.

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