February 27, 2008

P2P court case fails to judge

When the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) goes out of their way to take someone to court for copyright infringement you would have thought that they would have had their act together and ensure that the case went through as smooth as possible, but things do not always go according to plan even for the big boys.

But it seems that all the person accused failed to turn up at the hearing, normally it would be expected that the default judgement would come into play and the case would be over and done with. But to everyone’s surprise the judge refused to apply the default guilty motion.

As a result of this, any future cases could become even harder to get going in the first place. In the likely event that they try to make another case against someone for copyright infringement the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) are going to have look into how they word their papers.

Source [Ars Technica]