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Verizon Loses Suit Over Subpoena of Subscriber Info

Posted by michael on from the riaa-now-knows-if-you're-a-dog dept.

Brian Golden writes "As a result of a suit filed by the RIAA, the identity of a Verizon customer with a penchant for mp3's was ordered to be released. Man, how many people are now sweating bullets trying to remember what they downloaded?" News.com.com also has a story. If you've forgotten about this case, see our earlier story. Verizon wasn't making any sort of principled stand to protect its users' privacy, it just wanted to avoid the costs of complying with the (many) subpoenas it will now receive.

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  1. too easy... by Sparr0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It wasnt me, it was my brother/son/wife/cousin/neighbor/someone-using-my- WAP

  2. sky.isFalling() = True by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me get this straight.

    We now live in a world where anonymity no longer exists, we have to pay for music, and an ugly 18 year old Canadian chick is at the top of the US music charts?

    I need a Tums...

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  3. Where's Johnny Cochrane and the Chewbacca Defense by snowpuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Johnny Cochrane: It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I'm am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit. The defense rests.

  4. Re:The cost is complying with the request by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    > If the subpoena is particularly broad and the ISP is large, a subpoena can mean keeping gigabytes of data that the ISP would normally send to /dev/null.

    If I were the ISP, I'd comply with any request RIAA gave me for customer logs. I'd send 'em every byte every customer transmitted or received.

    I mean, what else am I gonna do with the half-dozen old line printers I found in the basement? :-)

  5. Re:They're monitoring P2P, not sniffing the intern by cybermace5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does anyone else think the subject size limit worked out REALLY funny this time?

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  6. Leave the RIAA alone by Billly+Gates · · Score: 3, Funny
    We all know from unbaised sourcesthat the RIAA is going out of bussiness. An executive in the article even admitted that some record companies may even go out of bussiness because a mere %6 loss is sooo much money! Thats %94 of the income thats only still there. OMG how horrible. This is from CNN the ultimate unbaised news from AOL-TIME-WARNER.

    The RIAA produces the best music in the world like Nsync, Britney Spears, and uh, uh well my mind is blank right now on any new bands. But anyway since the bands listed above are such high caliber and will be remembered for centuries to come like Mozart and The beatles I am sure piracy has to be the real reason.

    After all the RIAA is such a popular group of friendly, ethical, and hard working folks that consumers just love to buy from. They would have no incentive to boycut anyway. After all nobody even used napster back in 99 when they made record profits. Morpheous is so much more popular today and I am the big retailers are also hurting do to piracy. What they made money??? Well, uh I am sure its really still piracy. The economy is so strong right now and music is priced so low that it should just be flying off the shelves.

    Poor RIAA they are the true ethical and honest victims of piracy.

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