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Oregon Judge Says RIAA Made 'Honest Mistake,' Allows Subpoena
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Arista v. Does 1-17, the RIAA's case targeting students at the University of Oregon, the Oregon Attorney General's motion to quash the RIAA's subpoena — pending for about a year — has reached a perplexing conclusion. The Court agreed with the University that the subpoena, as worded, imposed an undue burden on the University by requiring it to produce 'sufficient information to identify alleged infringers,' which would have required the University to 'conduct an investigation,' but then allowed the RIAA to subpoena the identities of 'persons associated by dorm room occupancy or username with the 17 IP addresses listed' even though those people may be completely innocent. In his 8-page decision (PDF), the Judge also 'presumed' the RIAA lawyers' misrepresentations were an 'honest mistake,' made no reference at all to the fact, pointed out by the Attorney General, that the RIAA investigators (Safenet, formerly MediaSentry) were not licensed, rejected all of the AG's privacy arguments under both state and federal law, and rejected the AG's request for discovery into the RIAA's investigative tactics."
what is the point of tagging every story with 'story'? also, the little ! above the tags.. I thought maybe I could 'vote' a tag as incorrect with it, but I've tried so hard to coerce my pointer over the ! only to see it disappear.
What did she expect? That the horrible stories about poor people and ghettos were just made up? That they would invite her in for a nice southern meal and want her to educate them on the greatness of her journey to change the world? It is a very realistic end, to a very delusional beginning.
There's only a large surplus of it due to mammoth subsidies paid to corn farmers.
Recipe for counter argument for biofuel:
a) Pay huge subsidies for corn.
b) Use resulting excess corn as fuel crops
c) Complain that corn is inefficient as a fuel crop and point to the low yield per acre.
d) Point to the starving third world and claim that biofuel production takes food out of their mouth (yea, as if food produced in the US would get shipped to the third world anway)
e) Use above as smear campaign against biofuels
Done. Big Oil's engineered anti-biofuel campaign laid bare.
I hate printers.