Kazaa trial ‘expert’ changed sides
p2pnet.net News:- ‘Expert’ witness Melbourne professor Leon Sterling, produced by Big Music in the Kazaa civil trial currently unfolding in Australia, apparently once offered to speak for Kazaa owner Sharman Networks.
Sharman attorney Mark Lemming revealed that Sterling sent an email to a Sharman employee saying he was withdrawing his offer to be an expert witness for Sharman, “saying that writing a report requested by Sharman would be ‘stretching his expertise’.”
“During cross-examination, Lemming used the e-mail to question Sterling’s expertise in the trial against the company, which makes the Kazaa peer-to-peer software,” says ZDNet Australia.
“Your lack of experience in P2P makes it difficult for you to tell the court of any feasibility for the propositions you mentioned,” Lemming said.
Yesterday, “Kazaa Media Desktop (KMD) could easily collect statistics that could be gathered at supernodes if it does not do so already,” Sterling said.
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See:-
stretching his expertise - Witness against Sharman switched sides, ZDNet Australia, December 8, 2004
collect statistics – Kazaa activity can be monitored, p2pnet, December 7, 2004
December 9th, 2004 at 4:07 am
I’m not sure how courts evaluate so called “experts” but lending credibility to someone who talks about software he does not know in detail and has never used is not a very bright thing to do.