From the artifacts that I’ve seen so far that have been made available here and elsewhere, they are just printouts of ’stuff’ that could have been fabricated by anyone with knowledge of the operation of p2p networks and clients.

Presumably, under the law, these would be considered ‘business records.’ Business records need to be authenticated by someone from the business in question. For instance, telephone companies have employees that do little else than appear in court to authenticate business records when someone’s telephone records are introduced into evidence. Recall the trials of McVeigh and Nichols (OK City Bombing) where the Government’s case hinged primarily on the call records of a certain Talk n Toss phone card. The individual from that telecom provider was on the stand for several days to validate each individual ‘record’ involved in each call.

This is just more RIAA BS. Defense Counsel should demand these records be ruled inadmissible because of the obvious credibility problem concerning them. Get it right the first time, or don’t bother dragging mounds of crap into court and then say ‘OOPS!’ when closer scrutiny reveals it is not what it’s be represented to be.

–TurboGeek

They aren’t the Borg…rather they are the unimaginative, paper pushing Vogons.