EFF attacks foundation of entire RIAA lawsuit campaign

Courtesy Digg / Tech Industry News  Mon, 06/23/2008 - 10:01

The Electronic Frontier Foundation weighed in this week on the Jammie Thomas file-swapping case, where the judge has asked for public comment on whether just making a file available for download on a P2P network should count as copyright infringement.

In its filing, the EFF goes for the jugular and shows that the RIAA's entire approach is wrong.

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