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Anyway, some kind of royalty; it's hers by birth. Swinton was born into a clan of warrior aristocrats whose Scottish home dates back to the ninth century (they supposedly earned the family name by clearing the area of wild boar), and who served prominently in every major British military and political skirmish for a thousand years. One recent ancestor invented the tank; another helped invent television. Over the millennium the Swintons were deeded huge swatches of prime Scottish real estate; Tilda's father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, a.k.a. the Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire, lives in the family estate...
...scenes look inside Harvard Law School Professor Charles R. Nesson's '60 fight against the RIAA. Writer Christian B. Flow '10 follows the Twittering, marijuana-loving professor on his quest to protect alleged file-sharer Joel Tennenbaum, a college student who is being sued by five major record labels for downloading seven songs and sharing several others in a high school. Yeah, seven songs. Maybe you should close out of LimeWire, that new Emimem song can wait...
...three attorneys from the recording industry. Her intention was to discuss the progress of a case that Nesson had agreed to take on just six months previous—a case centering on Joel Tenenbaum, a 25 year old Boston University physics student being sued by five major record labels for illegally downloading and sharing music online...
Tenenbaum took the advice seriously. With Nesson’s approval, the 25-year-old Boston University physics student showed up for the deposition clad in a Red Sox t-shirt—a dig at his assailants, Denver-based lawyers, whose hometown team, Major League Baseball’s Colorado Rockies, had been swept by the Sox in the 2007 World Series. A pair of sunglasses—a warrior’s armor—hid his eyes during the proceedings...
...when the RIAA announced that they would start suing hundreds of individual file-sharers for their activities, Nesson began thinking about representing a Harvard student, but was unable to find one affected by the industry’s campaigns. In this sense, Joel Tenenbaum, a student, sued by five major record labels for downloading seven songs and sharing several others while he was still in high school, was a windfall. Here was a chance to take action against an industry that, to Nesson’s mind, is advocating the repression of a fundamental freedom to access and trade information...