The second full trial of a US peer-to-peer file swapper begins next week. Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston College grad student, will face RIAA lawyers who are fresh from a $1.92 million victory in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset case and eager to go 2-0 in such prosecutions. The record label companies want willful statutory damages of between $750 and $150,000 per infringement against Tenenbaum for 30 songs.
Iowa State computer science professor Doug Jacobson will testify as a computer expert while the defense has Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson. The defense expert will argue that the 816 songs in Tenenbaum's KaZaA share folder back in 2004 were simply a "fair use" of the recording industry's protected work.
Excerpted from ArsTechnia.com.
