Mediasentry Violates Cease & Desist Order

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 10, 2008 @05:23AM from the what-part-of-stop-don't-you-understand dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "On January 2, 2008, the Massachusetts State Police ordered MediaSentry, the RIAA's investigator, to cease and desist from conducting investigations in Massachusetts without a license. Based on what appears to be irrefutable proof that MediaSentry has been violating that order, the Boston University students who tentatively won, in London-Sire v. Doe 1, an order tentatively quashing the subpoena for their identities, have brought a new motion to vacate the RIAA's court papers altogether, on the ground that the RIAA's 'evidence' was procured by criminal behavior."

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Re:Your analogy doesn't work by immcintosh · 2008-04-10 10:11 · Score: 0, Flamebait

That's not really the problem with the analogy. The REAL problem with the analogy in his post is that the premise isn't even true. How much evidence gets thrown out on a regular basis because of failure to Mirandize the suspect, failure to get a search warrant, failure to show due cause for investigation? A whole goddamn lot. We do have rules in this country about the kind of evidence that can be admitted (much as the current treasonous administration would like to think otherwise).