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RIAA Sues the Wrong Person

Posted by timothy on from the just-looking-for-clowns dept.

Cildar writes "In the 'oops' category, the RIAA was forced to withdraw its suit against a 66 year old computer neophyte (read Apple User for god's sake) when they discovered she thought 'Kazaa' was a magician playing at local kids' birthday parties. The story is as reported in the Boston Globe." Update: 09/24 15:19 GMT by T : Note, the magician crack is a joke ;)

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  1. Re:wow ... by Frag-A-Muffin · · Score: 1, Troll

    I would be surprised if there were any common law country where the identify of users of an IP address were NOT subject to subpoena in a civil suit. Why should it be? There's no presumption of confidentiality.

    a) The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

    b) Bell, probably the biggest ISP in cananda (also the biggest provider of phonelines!!!) has this document about private customer information.

    Ummm yeah .. In most countries (I'd bet), even the police would have to get a warrant of some sort, before they can just get this information from a company. Why on God's green earth does an association of stupid record labels, have the power to bypass all these laws?!?!?

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