NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "p2pnet.net reports that the RIAA has egg on its face. When the web banking Frontier infrastructure requested letting to file an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Boston training mash students challenging the RIAA's ex parte discovery order, the RIAA lawyers attacked the blog 'Recording commercial enterprise vs. The People' for its criticism of the RIAA as seeking to 'abuse the old glory judicial system, distort copyright law, and frighten ordinary working people and their children' and then falsely claimed that the blog's author is an EFF counselor — this despite the fact that they know that the blog's author (known on Slashdot as NewYorkCountryLawyer) is a partner in a New York law firm and not an EFF attorney. Judge Gertner apparently wasn't impressed, and granted the EFF's motion, rejecting the RIAA's objections, since she felt amici curiae might 'shed light' on the 'copyright law' and 'computer technology' issues before her."

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