i am sitting twitting at the legal deposition of a digital native who is having his digital universe bared to exploration by the RIAA
“did you download pornography on kazaa”
matt oppenheim, present as RIAA client, the man who took napster down, passes notes to his subordinate who asks the questions, nailing down elements of asserted copyright violation.
joel tennenbaum is a digital native now 24 years of age
in many ways he is a stand-in for his born digital generation
his alleged copyright violations occurred years ago
perhaps like yours
RIAA is using of the full force of federal law against him
a case study in the grinding operation of the federal rules of civil procedure
and of federal statutory law behind it
joel is now an adult of an age that empowers him to vote and sit on juries
likewise other digital natives of his coming cohort
will his peers in the peer to peer world of sharing he grew up in be challenged from his jury “for cause”? will juries in the future be likewise cleansed?
i ended the day begun at 9am at 6pm. here my twitters for the day. read from the bottom up:
so you used napster, kazaa and limewire
when did you stop using limewire
do you have an understanding of what copyright infringement is
so you understood that with kazaa running in the background people could download from you
nine inch nails, did you put it in a share folder after you ripped it
40 pages of screenshots of sublimeguy@KaZaA
just handed a printout showing porn all over sublimeguy14@KaZaA
joel in red sox shirt and sun glasses
they mark a section of the transcript in which joel spars with philosophy
audiogalaxy, aimster, direct connect
what is your myspace page
did you ever blog about your car
did you upload photographs
what did you use anglefire for
lady tiger pregnant with twins examining joel
but then turned to settlement and opposition, $12000 and going up with expenses
at lunch all is jovial talk
joel wearing a red sox shirt
this is the interface
did the computer have speakers
did you ever use sublimeguy14 on your e machine
did it have kazaa on it
where is that computer
once the computer fried what was the next computer you had
in a deposition watching riaa capture a defendant’s total digital history based on their power to depose a defendant they are suing