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Is there any chance the dishonest "I didn't do it" defense will some time change into a honest "I did it and it was my right to do so"?
[Comment at 10/18/2009 11:57 PM by Samuel Hora]
What about posing the hypothetical "What if someone else was using my computer?" as opposed to just (falsely) declaring it? The burden of proof is with the prosecution, so they should have to prove that it couldn't have happened that way. The defendant shouldn't have to say what really happened either way (5th Amendment). The prosecution needs to prove culpability as well as offense, and in most of these copyright cases against non-publishers (non-profiting anyway), they have zero proof of either.
[Comment at 10/21/2009 08:02 PM by Anonymous]
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