p2pnet - rss feed: Boston Uni student defies RIAA
p2pnet.net news:- A Boston University student is blocking attempts by the major record labels to force the university to reveal names.
The demands were made after a Big 4 investigator apparently downloaded alleged copyrighted music from the university network.
In Arista v. Does 1-21, the labels’ RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is demanding the identities of 21 students but one of them, represented by Raymond Sayeg, is refusing to cooperate.
A “motion to vacate the ex parte discovery order, and the subpoena issued pursuant to that order, has been made,” says Recording Industry vs The People.
“The subpoena served on Boston University seeks identification of certain individual users of Internet services provided by the University to its students, faculty, and other employees on the grounds that the individual users of Internet services in fringed plaintiffs’ copyrights by storing music files on their computers are connected to the Internet without sufficient protection to prevent third parties from accessing those music files and copying them,” says Sayeg in a court document.
But, “the only copying alleged was conducted by plaintiff’s own agent, who had permission to copy the files.”
It goes on:
No actual copyright infringement on the part of individual users of Boston University’s Internet services, whose identities are sought has been alleged by plaintiffs.
Plaintiffs have not alleged that the individual users inviting anyone to copy their music files.
Plaintiffs have not alleged that the individual users were aware that any [sic] copied their music files.
Plaintiffs have not alleged that the individual users were even aware that their music files could be copied by third parties such as plaintiffs agents.
Plaintiffs have not alleged a duty for individual users to protect their music files from copying by third parties over the Internet.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
Recording Industry vs The People - Motion to Vacate Boston University Subpoena Filed in Arista v. Does 1-21, June 14, 2007
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June 14th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
it’s a very compelling argument. I’m interested to see where this goes
June 14th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
see also this interesting article:
http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/Article.aspx?id=1452
June 16th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Wow.
Very good points.
This feels right.
I with them the best of luck.
It sounds like a very solid fight.
April 5th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
The fight needs to go on, can’t fight a whole generation, and the digital genie won’t go back into the bottle.