Thursday August 13, 2009

Is a Fair P2P Trial Possible?

TorrentFreak wants to know if, given the results of the last two high profile file sharing cases, it is even possible to get a fair P2P trial? I have wondered the same thing myself but the other big question is this…how do regular people sitting on a jury return $80k per song judgments?

On one side, you have the defendant, who often has no resources at all, and on the other, the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry. In such cases, the law should win out, but given such a drastic mismatch, is a fair trial even possible?

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