p2pnet - rss feed: Exclude RIAA ‘expert’ evidence
p2pnet.net news:- Dr Doug Jacobson, associate professor at Iowa University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and cto at Palisade Systems, was hired by the RIAA to examine the image of a hard drive owned by RIAA victim Marie Lindor, the Brooklyn, New York, home health aide said by the Big 4 to be an illegal online distributor of online music.
Lindor’s lawyer, Ray Beckerman, called Jacobson’s work “shoddy,” labelling it “junk science“.
Now, in Recording Industry vs The People, citing Daubert v Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals and Federal Rule of Evidence 702, Beckerman has moved to exclude Jacobson’s trial testimony say it can’t meet standards for reliability of expert testimony.
Computer scientists, “will be astounded that the RIAA has been permitted to burden our court system with cases based upon such arrant and careless nonsense,” said Beckerman when Jacobson’s evidence first went online.
Interestingly, “it’s probably the first example of a case in which members of Net communities, notably people who post on slashdot and Groklaw, actively helped a lawyer frame the questions he needed to ask,” said p2pnet.
“Were deeply grateful to the community for reviewing our request, for giving us thoughts and ideas, and for reviewing other readers’ responses,” said Beckerman.
We did a full text breakout of Jacobson’s evidence.
Definitely stay tuned.
Also See:
junk science - RIAA expert’s ‘junk science’, March 1, 2007
Recording Industry vs The People - Ms. Lindor Moves to Exclude RIAA Expert Testimony, April 26, 2007
p2pnet - RIAA expert’s ‘junk science’, March 1, 2007
full text breakout - RIAA expert Jacobson: full text, March 1, 2007
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April 27th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
If it were me I would get some people to research old p2p clients that connect to the Fastrack network.
I used dozens of them over the years and can’t recall the names they used but I remember that there was one in particular that said it masked your IP address. It didn’t really do that because it’s impossible but the program spoofed the IP that was DISPLAYED in the other connected clients. The rational behind this was that anyone using another client could browse through your files and download anything from you while SEEING on their display screen that you were at 123.67.21.113 for example, while you were actually at a completely different IP. To get your real IP address they would have to hack into your system or do something otherwise illegal for investigative purposes. And that supposedly nullified the case.
The bittorent client I use now does the same thing for the exact same reason. What is displayed is not the truth. I show up under an Indian flag with a foreign IP.
Now if MediaSentry is strictly showing KaZaa screenshots as proof of IP and available media then there is absolutely no case.
I have tried finding this long lost app but cannot. Maybe it exists in archives someplace at Slyck or Zeropaid.