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Judge Says RIAA Can't Have Hard Drive

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the quite-a-large-beast-to-be-jumping-through-hoops dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A Texas judge has refused to allow the RIAA untrammelled access to the defendant's hard drive in SONY v. Arellanes. The court ruled that only a mutually agreeable, neutral computer forensics expert may examine the hard drive, at the RIAA's expense, and that the parties must agree on mutually acceptable provisions for confidentiality."

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  1. Defendant's terms by Firehed · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Okay, you guys can have the music back. Just let me keep the pr0n!"

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  2. An Easy Win Here Would Be... by punxking · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a a mutually agreeable, neutral computer forensics expert, my only acceptable choice is CowboyNeal.

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  3. Re:Money can't buy love... by ClickOnThis · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Buy/Pay-off "neutral expert"
    2) Resume "business" as normal
    3) ???
    4) Profit!

    5) Money trail is uncovered by journalist/FBI/whatever
    6) ???
    7) Prison!

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  4. definition of expert: by jtwronski · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they ever try to nail me (not that they'd have a reason to), I'll make sure that my linux box is only examined by a well-trained MCSE with lots of experience with the ntfs and fat32 filesystems.

        In reality, I could always do a checksum of my partitions, and see what the checksum is when the drive gets back from the RIAA's expert evidence installer guy. I'd fear a real expert more that I'd fear the RIAA shill doing it.