I admire this kid. (http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/31/piracy_suit/)He has huge brass balls.

I'll bet he's got a lawyer in the family.

I'll bet he's got a lawyer in the family.

It does help a lot. :)

It's more like a family tradition. The record companies went after other family members as well.

Among his 32 defense claims, he says the record companies have participated in antitrust violations and that they colluded in the piracy debacle by not warning of the illegality of peer-to-peer (P2P) programs, and in fact he alleges that some record companies supported P2P technology in its early days.

I can't see that defense working.

What's more, says Santangelo, is that he never actually illegally downloaded or transferred music. All the music on his PC was ripped from his sister's purchased music CDs, he says.

That, on the other hand, is a pretty good one.

I think he'll win no doubt.
If I were in his place I would fight it too, and I wouldn't stop.

in fact he alleges that some record companies supported P2P technology in its early days.

He has a good point here. There have already been rulings against the record industry based on that fact. The recording industry flooded the p2p market with fake, blank files a few years ago and because of it they lost a case like this because they couldn't prove the files on the person's harddrive were actually copyrighted and not their own fake blank files.

I admire this kid. He has huge brass balls.
I'm sorry, but your comment here just caused a scene from "Team America: World Police" to pop into my head...

The terrorist to Gary:

"You have big balls. I like big balls"...

He has a good point here. There have already been rulings against the record industry based on that fact. The recording industry flooded the p2p market with fake, blank files a few years ago and because of it they lost a case like this because they couldn't prove the files on the person's harddrive were actually copyrighted and not their own fake blank files.

It's pretty easy to prove which files are blank and which ones are not. The point about p2p being supported by the industry does not make his actions any more legal if he downloaded the music.

Kickass sig Prae - Go bears!

Thank you. That aside, I realize they have a slim chance of beating the Colts, but whatever - I'll be rooting for 'em come Sunday. We'll see what happens...

Fight the man!

oh wait, i work for the man, never mind.