RIAA Campaign Against Students Hits Stormier Seas

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "It's been astutely observed that the RIAA's "ex parte" campaign against "John Doe" college students seems to have run into much stormier waters than its campaign against regular folks. Discovery motions were thrown out by the judges in cases involving the University of New Mexico and the College of William and Mary, and motions to quash have been made by students at Boston University, Oklahoma State University, and the University of South Florida. The RIAA might find it particularly troubling that the students are coming in armed with substantial expert witness declarations attacking the entire underpinning of the RIAA's case, that the students are finding each other and banding together, and that the Chairman of Boston University's Computer Science Department went to bat — as an expert witness — for the BU students."

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To testify what?

[MBraynard]

Chairman of Boston University's Computer Science Department went to bat -- as an expert witness -- for the BU students

What does some limp-wrist academic testify to as an expert - 'Yes, students are ok to download copywritten work because I read on the slashdot that Information is Free and it is only taking money from evil labels not from artists. Why, your honor, do CDs cost 12.99 in stores when they cost only pennies to produce!'