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join:2003-06-28 | Anybody smell the fishyness in this? said by From artilce:
Evan Cox, a partner with Covington & Burling in San Francisco who is not involved with the case, said the error most likely happened in one of two ways: Either Comcast matched the wrong customer with the IP address, or the recording industry requested information about the wrong IP address, which is usually more than nine digits.
I expected this to happen. Since the RIAA suing people depends only on information gathered, if there is a screwup on some end where a tech matched the wrong IP to the wrong timestamp (or such information) then those subpoenas are going to be totally invalidated. Not only that, but the RIAA could collect bogus data if they wanted to, suing multitudes who've never shared or much less opened a P2P application.
If this is the exception for just *one* case, how does the RIAA prove that all the other thousands of P2P users are really elitest evil pirates sharing five pieces of music?
Do you smell the fish?
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