MPAA claims they don't need proof when they sue file-sharers
MPAA Says No Proof Needed in P2P Copyright Infringement Lawsuits | Threat Level from Wired.com
In fact, they claim obtaining proof is prohibitively expensive and therefore anyone they accuse should be automatically guilty.
The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the right to collect damages, perhaps as much as $150,000 per copyright violation, without having to prove infringement.
"Mandating such proof could thus have the pernicious effect of depriving copyright owners of a practical remedy against massive copyright infringement in many instances," MPAA attorney Marie L. van Uitert wrote Friday to the federal judge overseeing the Jammie Thomas trial.
"It is often very difficult, and in some cases, impossible, to provide such direct proof when confronting modern forms of copyright infringement, whether over P2P networks or otherwise; understandably, copyright infringers typically do not keep records of infringement," van Uitert wrote on behalf of the movie studios, a position shared with the Recording Industry Association of America, which sued Thomas, the single mother of two.
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bastards.
Posted by: milt | June 23, 2008 03:59 PM