Re: Chronicle: 12/02: Recording Industry Plans to Accelerate Complaints About Illegal File Sharing

[Jim Moore <jhmfa () RIT EDU>]

First, Thank you Morrow for giving us the heads up on a lot of things.  When
it comes from you or some of the other leaders in the community, I read it
right away.  Thanks for taking the initiative.  I hope to be able to share
more.

Second, I also see the complaints but especially RIAA has produced nothing
in response to my requests for information on their methods of
investigation.  I haven't had a lot of students say "It wasn't me."  (Some
of them it really wasn't - Compromised system ;-0 )  But on the other hand,
if we pass the complaint along, and they say "prove it" then we have the
choice to investigate every complaint ($$$ / complaint) or push back on RIAA
with "standards of evidence".  Really, with what they include in the
complaints, they have an allegation and NO EVIDENCE.

Has anyone with a lawyer on staff gotten an opinion on what constitutes the
basis of a copyright infringement complaint?   They have to be going on more
than file names. (Don't they?)  But an MD5 or something similar on digital
audio would seem to be too imprecise.  I can't believe that they listen to
enough to determine that it is the actual material (and another lawyer
question - how much is enough?)

With the RIAA, I even asked if they could have their investigative methods
reviewed by E&Y or PWC or Red Siren for soundness.  Didn't want to hear it.

MPAA was a different story.  They seem willing to have their investigative
methods reviewed external sources.

Jim Moore
ISO
Rochester Institute of Technology
jhmfa () rit edu

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Subject: [SECURITY] Chronicle: 12/02: Recording Industry Plans to
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