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Should RIAA Win Against Jammie Thomas Be Tossed After RIAA Admits It Misspoke On The Stand?

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Should RIAA Win Against Jammie Thomas Be Tossed After RIAA Admits It Misspoke On The Stand?

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Well, well, well. This morning when we pointed out that the RIAA’s responses to the whole Howell affair were rather lacking, we missed an important point. In the NPR debate between the RIAA’s Cary Sherman and the Washington Post’s Marc Fisher, while Sherman may have had the stronger case (this one time!), he did make one interesting statement that could have much wider implications. When pushed on the Howell case, rather than admitting he was wrong, Fisher moved on to a different situation: the infamously incorrect statements by Sony BMG exec Jennifer Pariser, who said on the stand, in response to a question about whether it was okay to make a personal backup copy from a CD, that saying so was “a nice way of saying, ‘steals just one copy.'” As we (and many others) pointed out at the time, this statement is blatantly false. When Fisher brought it up, Sherman responded by saying: “The Sony person who (Fisher) relies on actually misspoke in that trial. I know because I asked her after sto

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