BOSTON — Outspoken Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson crunched a Styrofoam jigsaw puzzle into dozens of pieces to show how Internet music downloading transformed CDs into “a million bits” in his dramatic opening statement at a high-profile copyright infringement trial in Boston’s federal court.

Nesson is representing Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum in Capital Records Inc. v. Alaujan , a District of Massachusetts case filed by several record companies and the Recording Industry Association of America against college students for making illegal Internet music downloads.

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