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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 Mer on Tuesday February 04 2020, @07:08PM
Youtube's a streaming provider. Not even talking about illegally hosted music on youtube, there's treasure trove of free music on VEVO channels.
It's perfectly legal to download and listen to that music for free, even if you block the ads, both youtube and the rightholders are giving consent (and if they tell you you can't block ads, their words hold no legal weight). Corpos just want to have their cake and eat it too
Shut up!, he explained.