Sccts guy contradicts RIAA document

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 22:22 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
> 
> just trying to catch Robin Williams and came accross the news instead.
> Channel 5 was interviewing the guy in Scottsdale who's being sued by the
> record company.
> 
> The guy claims he wasn't sharing the songs. The document from the record
> company's lawyer claimed he was knowingly sharing the songs.
> 
> Didn't catch the whole story, but it might not be as cut and dry as the
> record company wants to claim.
> 
> There was also the topic of whether or not one can copy songs from CD to a
> media player and confirmation of the claim that the claim is not that one
> is not allowed to copy to a media player. The reporter mentioned an .mp3
> player rather than mentioning a computer.
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I gather this story got lots of traction today - someone told me that he
saw CNN carry the story this morning but I saw none of it and just got
home myself.

You can count on local news to completely botch the story - CNN too.

Craig