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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.

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: 2) by exaeta on Sunday February 09 2020, @01:25AM (1 child)

    by exaeta (6957) on Sunday February 09 2020, @01:25AM (#955851) Homepage Journal
    I donno, you may argue that such terms are anticompetitive. If the contract is anticompetitive, it doesn't matter if you agreed to it, because antitrust law overrides contract law.
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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Sunday February 09 2020, @03:41AM

    by Pino P (4721) on Sunday February 09 2020, @03:41AM (#955886) Journal

    How often do private antitrust suits actually succeed?