p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- In November, 2004, several judges in the federal court in Austin, Texas, got together and ordered the RIAA to cease and desist its practice of joining multiple ‘John Does’ in a single case.

The RIAA blithely ignored the order, continuing the illegal practice for the next four years, but steering clear of Austin.

In 2008, however, circumstances conspired to force the record companies back to that venue.

In Arista v Does 1-22, in Providence, Rhode Island, they were hoping to get the student identities from the College of Rhode Island.

But after the first round, they learned the college wasn’t the ISP. Rather, the ISP was Austin-based Apogee Telecom Inc, meaning the RIAA would have to serve its subpoena in Austin.

The RIAA did just that, but Apogee, unlike so many other ISP’s, didn’t turn over its subscribers’ identities in response to the subpoena, instead filing objections.

This meant the RIAA would have had to go to court to try to get the Court to overrule Apogee’s objections.

Instead, it opted to withdraw the subpoena and drop its case.”

Ray Beckerman – Recording Industry vs The People

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