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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:good jurors are so hard to find! Re:good jurors are so hard to find! (Score: 3, Funny) by nobu_the_bard on Tuesday February 04 2020, @01:51PM (3 children)

  by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Tuesday February 04 2020, @01:51PM (#953533)

  Windows 10 workstations use a peer-to-peer like mechanism to distribute updates to other Windows 10 workstations it can find unless you deliberately turn the feature off. So yes, I have used a peer-to-peer network, all the time, for work, and so have probably millions of people.

  Bit of a strange question, like asking me if I've ever ridden one of those "horseless carriages" or worn these new fangled "pants".

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• Re:good jurors are so hard to find! (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:58PM

  by DannyB (5839) on Tuesday February 04 2020, @03:58PM (#953593) Journal

  Ransomware also uses peer-to-peer mechanisms to distribute updates to other Windows 10 workstations it can find. And you can't turn the feature off. So yes, any Windows user has used a peer-to-peer network, all the time, for work, home, play, pr0n, and so have probably millions of people.

  In the 90's, NetBIOS is the "butt sniffing" protocol that Windows machines use to find each other on the network.

  --
  The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.

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• Re:good jurors are so hard to find! Re:good jurors are so hard to find! (Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday February 05 2020, @07:23AM (1 child)

  by sjames (2882) on Wednesday February 05 2020, @07:23AM (#954130) Journal

  I have torrented Linux distros.

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  • Re:good jurors are so hard to find! (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @11:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @11:16PM (#954481)

    Don't you care about Linus getting paid!?

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