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A recent request to the courts in Washington DC by the US Copyright Group that would change the face of filesharing legal cases across the country is, we are pleased to say, most likely to fall on its ass and die.

The request was to treat 15,000 defendants in a filesharing case (the alleged crime was to download copies of the recently released “The Hurt Locker” and “Far Cry”). It can be plainly seen (to everyone except the US Copyright Group Lawyers, it seems) that this causes huge problems with individual’s rights. As the ACLU’s Aden Fine pointed out:

“lumping thousands of unconnected individuals into a few cases in a court far from where they live, without providing them adequate notice and a real opportunity to challenge the subpoenas,” certainly does not “uphold the law and individuals’ due process rights.”

The RIAA tried a similar thing a previously, and their request failed spectacularly. All the evidence points to the conclusion that this is going to go the same way. Let’s hope so, for the sake of file sharing and filesharers. And, of course, for the sake of common sense.

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