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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   Printer-friendly
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:

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

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by barbara hudson on Tuesday February 04 2020, @05:06PM (1 child)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday February 04 2020, @05:06PM (#953652) Journal
    Lucky you. I keep missing it, but then again it's not like I'm trying to get one. Just that there's a lot of group-think among people who deny they could be affected by group think. And now they'll get pissy again because I've pointed it out.

    Mostly libertarians who think social justice is evil.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 05 2020, @02:51AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday February 05 2020, @02:51AM (#954008) Journal

    You've hit on one of the most insidious ways hate and groupthink operate: convincing their targets that they (said targets) are immune to the very ploy the propaganda is using. Not only do the targets drop their defenses, they actually become partially or fully unable to comprehend what's happened to them because they take it for granted--almost as an axiom--that it isn't possible.

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