Sinabro

On WIRED blog:

Don’t believe Cary Sherman, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America, when he told a National Public Radio audience that Sony BMG’s anti-piracy chief had misspoken during her testimony in the copyright infringement trial against Jammie Thomas.

And if Sherman was telling the truth during that NPR interview, Thomas was the victim of a miscarriage of justice—despite the mountain of evidence against her.

Oh, so recording industry spokespeople can answer to questions that they “believe” were asked, rather than the ones that they were actually asked, and not face perjury charges, eh? After all, people shouldn’t care about whether they understood the question when they are testifying under oath!

If that’s the standard to which that they are held, what grounds do they have to stand on when I tell them, straight-faced, that I believed I was downloading a legal copy? That I believed I had permission to make as many copies as I want, because that’s what my computer does in playing a CD—it makes a copy of the WAV in memory! Or are they saying that since making a copy is somehow a crime and wrong, that I can’t legally play a CD that I bought (that is, if I’m lame enough to buy CD).