{"id":163,"date":"2008-04-25T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2008-04-25T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:48:06","slug":"ifpi-representing-themselves-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2008\/04\/25\/ifpi-representing-themselves-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IFPI &#8211; Representing Themselves, Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/17\/ifpi-representing-themselves\/\">I wrote here about the IFPI including a musician in their lawsuit against Pirate Bay that never wanted to, nor was asked about being included<\/a>. Well that was pretty bad&#8230;but in a further nuisance to the case against file sharers, it turns out that one of the expert witnesses brought on behalf of the IFPI as a prosecutor&#8217;s witness to help quash Pirate Bay was actually a former employee. Of course, this conflict of interest wasn&#8217;t revealed by the IFPI to the court, nor by the witness himself. Why would they intentionally tell the court something that might hinder their case? In a brilliantly ironic case of Web 2.0 and technology undermining a legal case seeking to stop file sharing and technology, the conflict of interest was discovered on the witness&#8217; LinkedIn account. If this entire case doesn&#8217;t get chucked out of court, I&#8217;m going to have to assume that something is broken in the Danish legal system&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wrote here about the IFPI including a musician in their lawsuit against Pirate Bay that never wanted to, nor was asked about being included. Well that was pretty bad&#8230;but in a further nuisance to the case against file sharers, it turns out that one of the expert witnesses brought on behalf of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[25,37,2034],"tags":[660,853,863,1413,2697],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}