RIAA drops case against Michigan students
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA was finally forced to fire MediaSentry, its inept ‘private investigator,’ replacing it with Dtecnet, a Danish firm whose reputation is also less than sterling.
Not that the RIAA didn’t get his money’s worth from MediaSentry, whose ‘evidence’ was repeatedly used by the RIAA to snow numerous technically ignorant US judges.
But before it was canned, MediaSentry fell foul of the state of Michigan.
Now Recording Industry vs The People is wondering if the fact seven students at the University of Michigan, “can breathe a little easier because the RIAA’s ‘John Doe’ case, LaFace Records v Does 1-7, has been dropped — without any subpoenas or ex parte discovery order being granted — may be linked to three investigations, with MediaSentry as the target, before Michigan’s Department of Labor and Economic Growth.
“This makes the third such case of which we are aware, the other two being Arista v. Does 1-22, targeting Rhode Island College students, and BMG Music v. Does 1-14, targeting students at North Carolina State and UNC-Charlotte,” says the blog.
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
January , 2009
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January 20th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
*wonders* Michigan was one of the detective liscence needed states. RIAA is outsourcing out of country to avoid such laws? Instead mabey they’ll get themselves into terrorism/industrial sabotauge charges now.
January 21st, 2009 at 2:08 am
I don’t think the can justify the move. I doin’t think foreign companies can investigate any easier then MediaSentry.
January 21st, 2009 at 2:00 pm
“Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMGâs RIAA”
I would like to make it clear that thousands of record labels are members of the RIAA and that it is NOT owned by only four of them, as you wrongly state in every story in which the initials RIAA appear.
It is a trade organisation which acts for its members. It is not a subsidiary.
Thank you.
January 21st, 2009 at 6:25 pm
^^ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18247
Cheers!