Oklahoma State tardy on RIAA subpoena
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- "Anyone have any ideas on why Oklahoma State University hasn’t complied with the subpoena?" – wonders Ray Beckerman in Recording Industry vs The People.
He’s referring to the fact in Arista v Does 1-11, the case against Oklahoma State University students, despite the court’s denial of the motion by some of the students to quash the subpoena, it seems the university failed to snap right to it.
"According to the RIAA lawyers, the university has ‘neglected’ to respond to the subpoena despite ‘many reminders’," says Beckerman, going on:
"Is it possible that, being a state university, it might have consulted with Oklahoma’s Attorney General, and learned that it has been violating federal law by failing to protect its students’ legal rights?
"Maybe the Oklahoma AG has read the papers of the Oregon AG pointing out that the RIAA is asking the university to violate federal law and that the RIAA has itself violated a cluster of laws?"
Oregon state attorney general Hardy Myers told Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA to either put up or shut up, also saying the RIAA may have been illegally spying on UO students.
Oddly, RIvTP notes, in the Oklahoma case, "it appears that the RIAA is asking the Court to direct the students’ lawyer, Marilyn Barringer-Thomson, to divulge the identities of her clients, which is clearly confidential information protected by attorney-client privilege".
Also See:
Recording Industry vs The People – Oklahoma State University ‘neglects’ to respond to RIAA subpoena, February 12, 2008
put up or shut up – RIAA may be spying on students: Oregon AG, November 29, 2007
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