List of MediaSentry / Jacobson RIAA ‘evidence’
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- Anyone following the sad tale of how a parasite (the RIAA) living in symbiosis with four dying dinosaurs ( Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG) struggles to keep its hosts alive by attacking very organisms which enabled them to survive (Big 4 customners), will be familiar with the name Doug Jacobson.
He works for the RIAA and another invasive Big 4 parasite, MediaSentry.
Despite the fact shaky, to be kind, evidence of file sharing supplied by MediaSentry and presented by Jacobson has been shredded repeatedly, the RIAA continues to offer it to judges involved in what should be innocuous civil copyright infringement actions, claimed by the RIAA and Big 4 to be terrible “crimes”.
Through his Recording Industry vs The People, New York lawyer Ray Beckerman has been at the forefront of efforts to show the RIAA and major labels up for what they really are — unconscionable bullies who rely on brutal attacks on their own customers to survive.
Despite literally thousands of attempts, the RIAA has yet to bring even one case to a successful conclusion and increasingly, judges are questioning the reliability of both Jacobson and MediaSentry.
Now Beckerman is acting as host.
But this time, not for parasites.
Rather, he’s running list of imaginative MediaSentry presentations which, claim Jacobson and MediaSentry in all seriousness, represent hard evidence of copyright infringements.
“For those of you litigating or investigating the investigative work of MediaSentry, we have made available online the MediaSentry exhibits that were used at the October, 2007, trial in Capitol Records v. Thomas, along with the report of the RIAA’s ‘expert”, Dr. Doug Jacobson, which recites that he relied upon these materials,” he says.
Of the literally thousands of attacks by the RIAA on Big 4 customers, not one has reached a successful conclusion.
Jammie Thomas is the only one of RIAA victims to have appeared before a judge and jury at her case — declared a mistrial – is scheduled to be on March 9.
Below is the lost of exhibits.
Exhibit 6 (alleged screen shot)
Exhibit 7 (”system log”)
Exhibit 8 (”user log” compressed)
Exhibit 9 (”user log”)
Exhibit 10 (”download data”)
Exhibit 11 (”trace route”)
Exhibit 13 (”IM Log”)
Jacobson report
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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December 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
every single one of those documents could have been doctored and the system log file looks nothing like the one I found on my old Windows 98 Comp I used back in college to download from Kazzaa.
December 15th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Trace Route may have been edited. I have never seen the term “success” on a trace route before.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Both the RIAA and Directv have sued people whom they knew were innocent. When an innocent person is sued it means that false information was provided the court.
While the person sued tries to report this false information given to the court, the court does nothing. Reporting to the Justice department as well goes no where. As a consequence, law enforcement has to be sent the message that there is no one above the laws. The next time you are a Juror or a witness, do just what Justice does in these cases, Ignore Justice. Jury nullification is a great way to give back just what Justice did to the innocent person who was sued.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Jury nullification is the LAST line of nonviolent defense of freedom. The founding fathers of the United States included the mandate for a jury system in the founding of the country. Its purpose is to protect the population from tyranny via unjust laws, excessive punishment, and kangaroo courts. Unfortunately, as with most other laws enshrined within the constitution, the government and courts routinely work to dilute the protections. This is where educated citizens come in.
If I ever sit on a jury, my verdict will be INNOCENT in any or all cases where the defendant was not allowed to present his evidence (kangaroo court), the law the defendant is accused of breaking is unconstitutional or unjust (an unconstitutional law is in fact no law at all), or if the possible punishment far outweighs the crime committed. In any of these cases, I will ignore what the judge’s instructions and provide a ruling that is in line with justice and the constitution.
I recommend a site for every p2pnet.net reader. This site is http://www.fija.org The Fully Informed Jurors Association.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Lists of stuff and lists of files. All proving what? And as a “professor” of networking should know it’s not that hard to fake IP addresses. Or hide your identity on the net.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:19 am
It is hard to fake an IP address. You cannot arrest a drunken driver if you cannot prove he was behind the wheel of a car. You cannot make a claim that Joe Blow was behind the computer keyboard if you do not know who it was behind a keyboard. There is a great distance between I think Joe Blow was behind the keyboard and I know joe blow was behind the keyboard.
In the directv cases, a person bought a smart card programmer. Because they bought a smart card programmer, they were sued stating that the smart card programmer “was” used to program a smart card to steal directv programming. 30,000 sued! Here the matter is “I bought a smart card programmer so I must have stolen television programming.” Many people who bought a legitimate and legal smart card programmer paid directv to settle because directv drove there litigation costs out of sight. You could not have had your day in court unless rich. Now consider again why jury nullification is the right option. Where the rich can make up a story and use the court to leverage a settlement, our court system is in trouble.