Re: RIAA timestamps off

[David Taylor <ltr () ISC UPENN EDU>]

Yea but I am wondering if some of the files in question might be fakes seeded by companies like MediaDefender. If they 
are sending notices without actually verifying the file is a legit copyrighted file where does that process stop and 
verification begins.


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David Taylor
University of Pennsylvania
Office of Information Security
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Edwards [mailto:chris () ENG GLA AC UK]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 7:50 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] RIAA timestamps off

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:50:42 EDT, David Taylor said:

|  I'm wondering if they are just going by the name of the file without even
|  verifying the contents of the file.

Quite possibly.  However it seems a unlikely the user is using P2P to
share out something legit with a filename of "Harry Potter Stone.mp3".


On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:

| One has to wonder if this isn't a Beavis-and-Butthead routine, where one
| group hired by the RIAA to seed file sharing networks with bogus and corrupt
| versions of files has managed to plonk a suspiciously named file onto
| somebody's hard drive, and then the *other* group hired by the RIAA to find
| violators has found said file...

Sounds plausible.

Guess I missed the B+B episode featuring P2P filesharing...


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Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service