The Digital Hobo

Ok, this guy got the shit end of the stick when the courts ordered him to pay $675k for violating copyrights. Kudos to the courts, though, for treating music piracy like the real violation it is.

Well, in a new twist, grad student Joel Tenenbaum – in hopes for getting a new trial – is putting the blame on the record labels for selling “DRM-free CD’s [that make] the proliferation of their recordings on the peer-to-peer networks trivially easy.”

Doesn’t this guy wish he settled for $5k like he was offered to begin with?

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