She Says She's No Music Pirate. No Snoop Fan, Either
Sept 25, 2003
The RIAA lawsuit against Sarah Ward has been withdrawn. Just as well, since Ward's computer, a Macintosh, cannot even run Kazaa, the program she is accused of using. Despite this, the RIAA admits no error and reserves the right to sue again. I'll let U.S. Senator Sam Brownback take it from here (hyperlinks from Copyfight): "This revelation challenges the testimony of the RIAA at the hearing, and shows that the subpoena process includes no due process for ISP subscribers' accused of digital piracy. Due process, if it existed within the DMCA subpoena process, would provide accused pirates identified through the subpoena with the critical opportunity to rebut accusations of piracy and prevent the release of their identifying information to accusers." Copyfight continues, "Not long ago our Professor Felten made an important point about the DMCA subpoena process--specifically, its enormous potential for abuse. Said Ed, 'Of course, big copyright owners aren't the only people allowed to use subpoena-bots. Virtually everything that anybody writes is copyrighted, so this subpoena power is available to every writer or artist, even down to the humblest newbie blogger. Want to know who that anonymous critic is? No problem; send your subpoena-bots after them.'"
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