You are absolutely right.
RIAA is going to get hammered and lose the case because the defendent is actually a victim of large corporate greed. As I recall maybe one of her childs friends maybe downloaded some copyrighted material. Or someone stole wireless from them, or the kid had admin rights and the machine got hacked.
Come on folks, the purpose of these cases is to scare common folks into behaving better.
RIAA should pay the legal fees based on their behavior. There are real pirates out there to be sued.
This is a classic case of government incompetance. Its also an example of why we test DR plans.
A very simple DR test would have most likely spotted the bad tapes. That and a decent tape rotation system, which they obviously did not have since they were forced to recall the paper and re-input.
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You are absolutely right. RIAA is going to get hammered and lose the case because the defendent is actually a victim of large corporate greed. As I recall maybe one of her childs friends maybe downloaded some copyrighted material. Or someone stole wireless from them, or the kid had admin rights and the machine got hacked. Come on folks, the purpose of these cases is to scare common folks into behaving better. RIAA should pay the legal fees based on their behavior. There are real pirates out there to be sued.
This is a classic case of government incompetance. Its also an example of why we test DR plans. A very simple DR test would have most likely spotted the bad tapes. That and a decent tape rotation system, which they obviously did not have since they were forced to recall the paper and re-input.