{"id":152,"date":"2007-08-16T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2007-08-16T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T13:30:18","slug":"20070816-riaa-backtracks-after-embarrassing-p2p-defendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/16\/20070816-riaa-backtracks-after-embarrassing-p2p-defendant\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/08\/16  RIAA Backtracks After Embarrassing P2P Defendant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harmony writes <em>&#8220;When the RIAA sued Sgt. Nicholas Paternoster, it included a screenshot of a shared folder with over 4,600 files \u2014 some of which were pornographic images unrelated to the case. Last week, the RIAA got permission from a judge to, as a &#8216;professional courtesy,&#8217; swap out the original exhibit for one with only the 350+ songs the defendant is accused of sharing on Kazaa. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070730-riaa-backtracks-after-embarrassing-p2p-defendant.html\">The RIAA&#8217;s carelessness may come back to haunt it<\/a>, however: &#8216;After the suit was filed \u2014 and the exhibit made public \u2014 Sgt. Paternoster decided to fight back, filing a counterclaim accusing the RIAA of violating his privacy and seeking to &#8220;shame Counter-Plaintiff&#8230; into giving in to their unreasonable demands regarding their copyrighted materials.&#8221;&#8216;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmony writes &#8220;When the RIAA sued Sgt. Nicholas Paternoster, it included a screenshot of a shared folder with over 4,600 files \u2014 some of which were pornographic images unrelated to the case. Last week, the RIAA got permission from a judge to, as a &#8216;professional courtesy,&#8217; swap out the original exhibit for one with only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}