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MIT Blocks RIAA's Subpoena
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posted by mpawlo
on Saturday August 09, @07:24AM
from the and-so-does-boston-college dept.
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A Massachusetts court has blocked several of RIAA's subpoenas. RIAA wanted the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston College to disclose the identity of file-sharers.
'I hope this will give other people hope', Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation told News.com.
However, the court's decision may not work as precendent, while it was based on a technicality. RIAA filed the subpoenas in the wrong court. The subpoenas should be issued in the local court.
Read more at News.com.
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Anonymous Coward
on Sunday August 10, @11:34AM (#1022)
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" Also, what type of arrangement does the RIAA have with the lawyers who'll go after the users? I know that many lawyers take $ only if there is a win. Could the RIAA just hire gazillions of these guys and then just let them keep whatever? That way, they could just sue everyone and their mother (for maximum intimidation effect) and not be bogged down $- or time-wise?"
I don't really know either, but I suspect this is not the case. A law firm would have have to be going up against an ISP. In many cases these are telecommunication giants. I would suspect that it takes a lot of backing to launch a suit that is in part going after ISP's, even if it is just for information. Kind of like a stand-off or an escalation in arms. The ISP's and RIAA may not be on level ground. But they could both pump an unreasonable amount of money into a lawsuit. If an ISP knew it faced only a smaller or medium sized law firm, unwilling to dedicate years and a fortune to a legal battle, then the ISP could drain, or threaten to drain, the resources of the lawfirm in a drawn out battle. After one or two of these, if even that, the lawyers would not risk losing their own cash on a losing battle.
Instead, since the RIAA is behind this with deep pockets, the ISP will not invest a ridiculous amount just to tie up the RIAA because the RIAA could keep up dollar for dollar, then the ISP's money would just be wasted.
Remember, the ISP doesn't really care about the user. The big ISP's are fighting because of the waste of their resources and risk of losing customers. I wish they'd raise the stakes and fight it out though. One big evil group of corporations against another big evil group of corporations. Maybe they will kill each other.
Nah, both will just raise their price gouging.
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