RIAA Also Tells Judge That Proof Shouldn't Be Necessary To Sue F...

Courtesy Techdirt  Tue, 07/01/2008 - 11:15

Following in the footsteps of the MPAA, the RIAA has now filed its response in the Jammie Thomas case , claiming again that actual proof of distribution doesn't make sense: "Requiring proof of actual transfers would cripple efforts to enforce copyright owners' rights online." See, there's just one problem with this.

The law isn't designed to make it easy to enforce copyright owners rights. It's designed to make sure that only the guilty party is actually blamed for...

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