Nate Anderson, Senior Editor, Ars Technica

Billion Dollar Charlie Takes on the RIAA

April 2, 2009 at 12:04 am PT

Charlie Nesson isn’t one for small gestures–the Harvard law professor is known as “Billion Dollar Charlie,” after all, and he was one of the lead lawyers in the famous industrial dumping case that became the book (and then the movie), “A Civil Action.” So when he took on the defense of a 25-year old Boston University physics grad student who was accused of sharing copyrighted music online, the case suddenly promised to be more than usually interesting. It has not disappointed so far.

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