Re:Feds seize $50 million in Megaupload assets, lodge new ch...
by nitrogen on Saturday February 18, 2012 @11:03PM
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Voir dire will be used to make sure nobody who's ever downloaded anything sits on the jury, just as with Thomas-Rasset.
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Re:Feds seize $50 million in Megaupload assets, lodge new ch...
by slavak on Sunday February 19, 2012 @04:09AM
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Do such people actually exist this day and age? Someone might not have downloaded anything themselves, but how likely it is they don't enjoy watching a downloaded movie with their grandkids from time to time?
Re:Feds seize $50 million in Megaupload assets, lodge new ch...
by nitrogen on Sunday February 19, 2012 @03:29PM
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I don't doubt that many of them exist, or at least don't know they don't exist.
After tossing out four jurors (the ones who had the most experience with file-sharing friends)... - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/jury-selecte...
Judge Gertner repeatedly sided with the plaintiffs, who objected to the presence on the jury of those who essentially admitted to the same activity of which Tenenbaum, a 25-year-old Boston University graduate student, stands accused. - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/tenenbaum-tr...