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Often, the accused in copyright infringement cases do not understand the charges against them and cannot afford an attorney, so they pay the amount the RIAA demands without ever reaching court, Nesson said...
Charles R. Nesson ’60, the founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is defending Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student charged in 2005 with downloading seven songs from a file-sharing network. According to RIAA spokesperson Cara Duckworth, the amount sought from Tenenbaum is undisclosed and left to the judge’s discretion, though Tenebaum may face over $1 million in penalties...
...plaintiffs and the RIAA are seeking to punish him beyond any rational measure of the damage he allegedly caused,” Nesson wrote. “They do this, not for the purpose of recovering compensation for actual damage caused by Joel’s individual action, nor for the primary purpose of deterring him from further copyright infringement, but for the ulterior purpose of creating an urban legend so frightening to children using computers, and so frightening to parents and teachers of students using computers, that they will somehow reverse the tide of the digital future...
...Until the RIAA is able to offer consumers a reasonable alternative to buying entire CDs or records, this case against Joel is essentially extortion,” said Randall Baldassarre ’10. “If other alternatives like iTunes come to the marketplace, then it becomes a different story...
...don’t want to let a private entity like the RIAA stem the tide of a digital future,” Tenenbaum said...