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Lawyer: RIAA wants to shut down the Internet 30 November 2006 3:19 by dRD Lawyer: RIAA wants to shut down the InternetA lawyer defending Net users that have been sued by the music industry's lobby group, *RIAA*, claims that the evidence -- or actually the lack of it -- in one of the cases RIAA is pushing in courts, if accepted, would effectively shut down the whole Internet <http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8177.cfm#>. The lawyer, Ray Beckerman, tells in an interview on DefectiveByDesign <http://www.defectivebydesign.org/node/404> about a real case, /Electro vs. Barker/, in which, the recording industry, in its complaint, doesn't even bother to /"specify any acts or dates or times of copyright infringement as the law normally requires"/. As the case proceeds in the courts, RIAA has made a statement that merely making files available on the internet <http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8177.cfm#> is in and of itself a copyright infringement. /"It was a shocking argument because if it were accepted it would probably shut down the entire internet"/, Beckerman says. *MPAA*, obviously, has put in a brief supporting the RIAA's case. More interestingly, also the U.S. Government has filed a brief supporting RIAA's side in the case. /Source: DefectiveByDesign <http://www.defectivebydesign.org/node/404>/ Related articles: # MPAA wants your privacy <http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8184.cfm> (1 December 2006)
