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+- Judge in Oregon Says RIAA Made 'Honest Mistake'-> on Thursday October 02 2008, @05:45PM NewYorkCountryLawyer
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Arista v. Does 1-17, the RIAA's case targeting students at the University of Oregon, the Oregon Attorney General's motion to quash the RIAA's subpoena — pending for about a year — has reached a perplexing conclusion. The Court agreed with the University that the subpoena as worded imposed an undue burden on the University by requiring it to produce 'sufficient information to identify alleged infringers', which would have required the University to 'conduct an investigation', but then allowed the RIAA to subpoena the identities of 'persons associated by dorm room occupancy or username with the 17 IP addresses listed' even though those people may be completely innocent. In his 8-page decision (PDF) the Judge also 'presumed' the RIAA lawyers' misrepresentations were an 'honest mistake', made no reference at all to the fact, pointed out by the Attorney General, that the RIAA investigators (Safenet f/k/a MediaSentry) were not licensed, rejected all of the AG's privacy arguments under both state and federal law, and rejected the AG's request for discovery into the RIAA's investigative tactics."
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