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...result, 25-year-old Joel Tenenbaum's fight against the music industry has the potential to set a precedent for the treatment of future cases of illegal file-sharing pursued by the Recording Industry Association of America, an association that led the industry's legal and lobbying battles against online file-sharing...
...earlier, in the fall of 2003, 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...
...corresponding struggle—as much ideological as it is practical—is not a new one for Nesson, and the Joel Tenenbaum case is hardly the only front on which he believes it needs to be fought. Nesson (who famously told Harvard Law’s student newspaper in 2002 that he had experimented with LSD and cocaine and still often smoked joints on his morning walks) has been working for years on causes—the legalization of marijuana among them—that he sees as important roadmarkers on the path to reliable personal freedoms...
...some of Nesson’s schemes have seemed extremely strange. “There are not any of us that don’t ever feel uncomfortable,” says Matthew C. Sanchez, a third-year student who drafts most of the legal documents for the Tenenbaum team. “There’s always some uneasiness about treading new ground, because you think, ‘I might be doing something wrong.’ Lawyers as a tradition are very rule-bound...
Sheffner, the copy-conservative blogger, puts it differently: “Everything in this case has been abnormal and weird.” It’s a fact that may have cost the Tenenbaum team on more than one occasion. It also may be the team’s best chance of succes. With several hurdles left to clear before a trial date can be set, those following the case will have to wait...