RIAA roundup

I've been absent from here not because I've been subpoenaed by the RIAA, but preparing to take the California bar exam after moving here from New York.

If you're wondering whether your identifying information has been subpoenaed from your ISP, check the EFF database query of data gleaned from the D.C. District's PACER. ISPs subpoenaed so far:

• 31 SBC
• 29 Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.
• 21 Charter Communications, Inc.
• 15 Time Warner Cable
• 14 RCN Corporation
• 4 Verizon Internet Services, Inc.
• 2 Earthlink, Inc.
• 2 Boston College
• 2 Adelphia Communications Corporation
• 1 Pacific Bell Internet
• 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1 Loyola University Chicago
• 1 DePaul University
• 1 Bentley College

Wonder what the RIAA is planning to do with all that info? RIAA President Cary Sherman announces desert detention facility for suspected (and unsuspected) filesharers (via Denounce.com):

"We don't care if the person is eight, eighteen, or eighty or unaware of the law. If we catch 'em sharing files, we're sending them to jail. Not just any jail. Our jail. We don't even care if they're legally sharing their own personal music files with a family member. We don't care if they're simply transferring their own peronal music from their desktop machine to their iPod. If we catch 'em doing it, we'll be there to take them away."

On a more serious note, EFF suggests Subpoena Defense, an EFF-USIIA partnership (in conjunction with Chilling Effects).

The folks who brought us "Napster Bad," now give us Sue all the World (may not be work-safe, depending where you work).

Posted by Wendy at July 27, 2003 11:44 AM | TrackBack