GNG News Guy
12-02-2007, 10:36 AM
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Oregon s State Attorney General has been actively involved in fighting the tactics of RIAA in its litigation against students at the University of Oregon. The belief is that the RIAA s tactics for gathering evidence are questionable at best. "The RIAA has been bringing fake copyright infringement lawsuits, the sole purpose of which is to get the names and addresses of John Does," (said Ray Beckerman, a New York lawyer). They then drop the case and try to pressure these individuals into settling based on dubious evidence at best, he said.
The arguments made by the attorney general include that the RIAA s tactics have produced information which isn t sufficient to prove illegal file-sharing as well as that RIAA investigators used illegal tactics to obtain the information used in their lawsuit. Additional details about the pending litigation can be found here (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140173-c,copyright/article.html).
Oregon s State Attorney General has been actively involved in fighting the tactics of RIAA in its litigation against students at the University of Oregon. The belief is that the RIAA s tactics for gathering evidence are questionable at best. "The RIAA has been bringing fake copyright infringement lawsuits, the sole purpose of which is to get the names and addresses of John Does," (said Ray Beckerman, a New York lawyer). They then drop the case and try to pressure these individuals into settling based on dubious evidence at best, he said.
The arguments made by the attorney general include that the RIAA s tactics have produced information which isn t sufficient to prove illegal file-sharing as well as that RIAA investigators used illegal tactics to obtain the information used in their lawsuit. Additional details about the pending litigation can be found here (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140173-c,copyright/article.html).