Help needed in RIAA case
p2p news / p2pnet: Yesterday we posted an appeal from Zi Mei, the guy who’s helping Ray Beckerman with the John Doe Number 8 case in which JD8 is asking for an RIAA ex parte discovery order thrown out.
If that happened, it could be a major disaster for the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
RIAA employee Jonathan Whitehead claims the metadata in John Doe Number 8’s shared files folder shows illegal copying took place and Zi, who’s working to refute that, is looking for help and ideas from people in the online community.
See our last post for details and for ideas so far, head over to the Recording Industry vs The People Calling all Techs post.
As Zi says there, “Tell your friends and anyone you can about our efforts.
“I need a lot more input to fight this. Time is not on our side.
“I also need to know more about Supernodes and how to possibly use fake supernodes to entrap users or create fake data, or any other crap the RIAA’s so-called ‘investigations’ might involve.”
If you can help, help.
January 29th, 2006 at 6:07 am
There are many malware routimes that spread via p2p. What if one of these malware files used the names of polular songs as possible contol files. The song may even acually play, but control information may be contained within. If I were a malware coder, I would write my creation so that it would use many of the popular filesharing protocols in order to spread the malware or control information.
January 29th, 2006 at 6:25 am
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Spammers as well as the likes of malware authors have been known to create fake meta data. How many computers are on Mr. Does network? Is there any wireless equipment on Mr. Doe’s network? Or has Mr. Does computer been checked for malware? I wonder about the possibililty of malware that transfers data being installed on Mr. Doe’s computer – remember Sony, anyone? Weren’t some antivirus companies relectant to label Sony’s malware as such? These are some issues to think about.
January 29th, 2006 at 6:37 am
This approach sounds remarkably similar to that used by Sony BMG which employed XCP. I wonder if they patented it?
–TurboGeek