p2pnet.net News:- Ex-RIAA dentist Matt Oppenheim has re-appeared on the file sharing scene.

Once the RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of America) senior vp of business and legal affairs, he’s now a partner at Jenner & Block, one of the firms chosen by the MPAA to represent it in its attempt to crush people who run BitTorrent servers.

One of Oppenheim’s more memorable quotes was, the “Fourth Amendment does not apply to (the RIAA)” with respect to the sue ‘em all lawsuits launched by the Big Music cartel-owned RIAA against file sharers.

The former RIAA legalist also described himself to Jesse Jordan, one of his victims, as a, “dentist you don’t ever want to have to visit again”.

Now acting for the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) through Jenner & Block, he’s sending out heavy lawsuit letters to Bit Torrent websites and their hosts, says dslreports which also has copies of missives sent to Torrent site Demonoid.

“In it,” says dslreports, “lawyers warn the host they’ve sued the operators of a Torrent site on their network, but currently don’t know their identities.

“The letter to the website owner claims they face ‘severe sanctions’ should they delete any pirated material or usable evidence in the case against them.”

As dslreports posters note, the IP address for the website cited in the letter (66.250.450.10) doesn’t/can’t exist.

Stay tuned

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See:-
Jesse Jordan – RIAA’s Oppenheim hits the road, p2pnet, March 8, 2004
severe sanctions – MPAA Torrent Suit Letters, dslreports, December 22, 2004

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