Comments on: A question or two for RIAA PI MediaSentry ….

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:45:39 +0000

This whole âIP Addressâ evidence is failing apart. Even you know somebody âofficiallyâ owns gun there is still work required to ensure you charge actual âcriminalâ instead of innocent gun owner. Other words to say is if there âpossibility of someoneâ who can access same IP Address as charged in violations of copyright protection laws then all such charges against IP address associate should be dismissed.

By: Hippie

Hippie — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:19:43 +0000

” Kazaa clients typically download the whole file from one client; this may be why the RIAA has (so far) only sued Kazaa-type users. ”

Not really.
Kazaa and other clients like it are perfectly capable of multisource downloading.
I think the reason they target Kazaa users is that most Kazaa users are too computer
illeterate to use anything else, that can’t be tracked, or to simply turn off the ability to
view the shared file list.

The RIAA lies so much, on the on hand they says their investigative methods are proprietary, and must
be protected from scrutiny, and on the other hand the ALSO say that they do nothing that any other
Kazaa user would do.

This leads me to nelieve that they simply use a Kazaa client, just like the people they are suing.
To admit this could ruin their entire claim, since there are many ways to spoof Kazaa.

By: ...

... — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:08:16 +0000

Not mentioned:

Backup procedures: who has access to backup tapes, are there even any backup tapes? Are they stored off-site or at some employee’s house?

As well, were proper CoC (chain of custody) procedures followed at *every* stage of the investigation? Do they even know what CoC is? Do they have certified forensics experts on staff to handle every case? If the data even has a slight possibility of being tainted then it can not be used as reliable data and must be thrown out and not admitted as evidence.

This is such a sham that ANY reasonably-knowledgeable I.T. person could rip them to shreds.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:46:33 +0000

Why does the above keep mentioning bittorrent? All of the depositions (so far) have referenced Kazaa, not BT. AFAIK, Kazaa clients typically download the whole file from one client; this may be why the RIAA has (so far) only sued Kazaa-type users.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:22:57 +0000

Add to the time syncronozation question the issue of time zones. If MS uses current time, passes it on to ISP the time zone may change and also the issue of some servers running on GMT. Not minutes of difference, hours.

(Apparantly an issue in a few european cases)