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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Boston judge who has consolidated all of the RIAA's Massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been presiding for the past 5 years delivered something of a rebuke to the RIAA's lawyers, we have learned. At a conference this past June, the transcript of which (PDF) has just been released, Judge Nancy Gertner said to them that they 'have an ethical obligation to fully understand that they are fighting people without lawyers... to understand that the formalities of this are basically bankrupting people, and it's terribly critical that you stop it ...' She also acknowledged that 'there is a huge imbalance in these cases. The record companies are represented by large law firms with substantial resources,' while it is futile for self-represented defendants to resist. The judge did not seem to acknowledge any responsibility on her part, however, for having created the 'imbalance,' and also stated that the law is 'overwhelmingly on the side of the record companies,' even though she seems to recognize that for the past 5 years she has been hearing only one side of the legal story."
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Posted by on under nato russia, somali pirates, 5th fleet, best efforts, grapes, piracy, security council, nato, india |
Somali pirates hijack another boat -- or two or three -- every day despite the best efforts of the U.S. 5th Fleet, NATO, Russia, India and others. This is not new; pirates have been frustrating the mighty for at least 2,000 years. As the U.N. Security Council grapples with Somali piracy, its members are in venerable company.
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Online payments service PayPal says its suspension of certain transactions in India could last months.
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Posted by on under system filters, credit approvals, digg, call centre, apartheid, india |
A new banking phone system will identify those with low credit approvals and put them through to a call centre in India.
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Posted by on under reacing, service offerings, ovi, c service, fri, handsets, drm, nokia, nbsp, india, music |
We can't say that we'll miss the awkwardly named
Comes with Music service branding from Nokia. Of course, we're making the assumption that India's recently christened Ovi Music Unlimited store will be making its way global as Nokia continues to
tighten up its service offerings in the race to compete in the era of modern smartphones. It's certainly consistent with the new
Ovi Music naming convention so why not. Otherwise, it looks like nothing else about the all you can eat (for a year) music offering has changed --
particularly the DRM that locks "
your" music to your PC or
CWM OMU handsets for life-
ish.
Ovi Music Unlimited replacing Nokia Comes with Music branding originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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