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...prototype stage of a franchise launch - a vigorous introduction of the characters and motifs - and go directly to self-parody. We are told the main story takes place "In the not too distant future ..." If that recalls the first line of the old Mystery Science Theater 3000 theme song, you will have brought the proper attitude to the movie: it hardly needs wisecracking robots, for it not only carries the seeds of its own destruction but hands them out like a Burpee's salesman. An early scene, flashing back to 17th century France, plays like a lost Monty Python sketch...
...jury found that Joel Tenenbaum, 25, willfully infringed on the copyrights held by companies including Sony and Warner Bros and awarded the companies $22,500 per song downloaded. The jurors—instructed to decide only the willfulness of Tenenbaum's actions and the amount of damages to be paid—reached their conclusion in about three hours last Friday...
...unusual legal arguments, said that the damages awarded would bankrupt Tenenbaum, and that his client would ask Judge Nancy Gertner to reduce the sum to a more "reasonable" level. In the only previous such case to go to trial, Capitol v. Thomas, the plaintiffs were awarded $9,250 per song, an amount raised to $80,000 per song in the re-trial for a total of $1.92 million...
...same time, the damages that Tenenbaum faced—up to $4.5 million—were disproportionate to the harm caused by his actions, Nesson added. Downloading a song legally via Amazon.com, for instance, costs a user 99 cents, and consequently, Nesson said, the magnitude of possible damages seemed unreasonable in comparison...
...court system (as a young man, he appealed a ruling for a traffic violation), a concluding allegory about a wise old man and a bird ("the bird is in your hands," he told the jury), and a portion during which he intended to have jurors listen to a song (quashed by Gertner in the interests of time...