{"id":352,"date":"2009-01-19T13:33:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T18:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/19\/riaa-moves-out-of-the-dorm-and-doesnt-get-its-security-deposit-back\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T18:33:05","slug":"riaa-moves-out-of-the-dorm-and-doesnt-get-its-security-deposit-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/19\/riaa-moves-out-of-the-dorm-and-doesnt-get-its-security-deposit-back\/","title":{"rendered":"RIAA moves out of the dorm — and doesn’t get it’s security deposit back."},"content":{"rendered":"

Evidence that the RIAA is winding down it’s pointless lawsuits against alleged file-sharers is most evident on campus.  The RIAA have dropped three oustanding (and by ‘outstanding’ I mean ‘unresolved’ rather than ‘really good’) John Doe cases involving students.<\/p>\n

I’ve always found the RIAA’s idea that you could identify the perps via IP addresses rather humourous.  In a network environment strewn with dynamic IP assignments (DHCP), network adress translating firewalls and various anonymous proxy arrangements it’s pratically impossible to prove ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ who ‘owns’ a particular IP address at any given time.  Of course, this also assumes that the IP address in question, and the computer to which it is assigned, is controled by a single person.  How many households do you know where there is a ‘family PC’ that is used by many members of the family throughout the day?  Absurd.<\/p>\n

As I consider the whole notiong of suing your customers I’m reminded of the old adage; ‘If all you have is a hammer every problem looks like a nail.’.  In this case all the RIAA had were laywers and no technologists nor creative business leaders who were capable of crafting a business model that embraced digital peer-to-peer distribution. I’ve known quite a few lawyers in my time; many of whom are quite smart but a precious few who could formulate a solution to a given problem that did not involve lawsuits.<\/p>\n

I’m convinced that lawyers are a self-propagating sub-species of humans.  This leads me to my theory of ‘redundant occupations’ but that is a story for another day.

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RIAA pulls out of John Doe cases involving college students<\/a><\/small><\/small><\/font><\/h1>\n

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Evidence that the RIAA is winding down it’s pointless lawsuits against alleged file-sharers is most evident on campus.  The RIAA have dropped three oustanding (and by ‘outstanding’ I mean ‘unresolved’ rather than ‘really good’) John Doe cases involving students. I’ve always found the RIAA’s idea that you could identify the perps via IP addresses rather … Continue reading RIAA moves out of the dorm — and doesn’t get it’s security deposit back.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-media","category-it-seems-to-me"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t