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Judge: music labels have to prove sharing

December 23, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Synopsis: 

On Digg estvir wrote an article about a recent case of a judge telling RIAA that its up to them to prove that the plantiff(the one there sueing) was actively sharing there copyrighted material. Basically that it wasnt enough to show that the plantiff put the files on there computer but that they actively advertised the material to others to download! 

Article:  

Judge David G. Trager ruled that when the case goes to trial, “plaintiffs will have the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that defendant did indeed infringe plaintiff’s copyrights by convincing the fact-finder, based on the evidence plaintiffs have gathered, that defendant actually shared sound files belonging to plaintiffs.”

The great debate : 

 So what did the digg community have to say about this?

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