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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: 2) by https on Tuesday February 04 2020, @05:21PM (1 child)
The lawyers and judge may have had an entirely different criterion of "significance" than you did. Logic is only one of many tools available for clear thinking.
Wanting to get out of jury duty contradicts wanting a fair trial for yourself.
Offended and laughing about it.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 04 2020, @07:06PM
Absolutely.
That's why I participated in the process. Twice, so far. If they come calling again, I will be happy to participate.
I'm sure I could manipulate my way into getting excused. But it is called "duty" for a reason.
The thing about landline phones is that they never get lost. No air tag necessary.