RIAA’s IP Gathering Techniques About to be Busted
Written by Ernesto on May 15, 2007RIAA’s shoddy data gathering techniques are unlawful and shouldn’t be used as legal evidence. This is what a Dutch court concluded based on the expert witness statement from Dr Johan Pouwelse, who is about to testify in the UMG v. Lindor case in the US.
Dr. Pouwelse is hired by Ray Beckerman, Mrs Lindor’s lawyer, to give his expert opinion on the RIAA’s IP-harvesting techniques.
Among others, the RIAA hires the US based company MediaSentry to monitor file-sharing networks for infringements of their client’s media. MediaSentry’s job is to identify and trace IP addresses they claim are engaged in such activity.
MediaSentry’s effectiveness has been called into question by Dr. Pouwelse in Foundation v. UPC Nederland. It was concluded that the “shoddy” way MediaSentry collects and processes IP addresses has no lawful basis. When the US court reaches the same conclusions, this will have great implications for many other RIAA lawsuits.
As Jon from P2Pnet puts it; “Pouwelse’s evidence will be a landmark and it’ll be re-employed by attorneys the length and breadth of America who are working to prove the innocence of their clients who, like Mrs Lindor, are falsely held up to be unprincipled, hard-core criminals and thieves.”
Pouwelse is founding father of the Tribler BitTorrent client and currently employed as an Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
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Finally, some good news in this neverending clusterfuck….
Media Sentry’s logo is a set of tits with eyes?!
LAME!
” Media Sentry’s logo is a set of tits with eyes?!”
Don’t know if that is their real logo, but Mark Ishikawa of Media Sentry who presents himself to senate hearings as an “anti-child pr0nographer” has contract with pr0nographer Suze Randall. Maybe that is it? Double standards but Congress loves double standards anyway.
Can someone spoof a tracker to list IPs inside congress? Could be fun!
I think I better retract this: “Can someone spoof a tracker to list IPs inside congress? Could be fun!” I WAS OF COURSE JOKING!!!
Why can’t trackers simply create a terms of service that states anybody connecting to the tracker cannot use any or all information returned from the tracker in legal matters.
This way all information collected would be useless in a court case as it was obtained against the consent of the domain providing the information.
digi7al64;
thats like saying if there was a website for hosting illigal pr0n, and the user simply said ‘you cannot come past this page unless you agree to our Terms and conditions and not sue us or send us to jail.
use your logic.
the idea that a U.S. court will eventually come to the same conclusion is one hell of an assumption though.
F U communists
Glad to see I’m not the only one who though “breasts.”.
That top bit does look like a neck and shoulders though.
Well, If you invent the law the truth will catch up with you one of these days. Now when will those record record sales occur to them.
Seriously, that logo is hilarious. You’d think they were in charge of pr0n DRM not RIAA enforcement.
Media Sentry should visit the porn section in piratebay… fucking tits with blue eyes.. aye pirates!!!
“Can someone spoof a tracker to list IPs inside congress? Could be fun!”
smiles ( dont worry this is already happening they just dont wanna go after them selvs )
Think i download with my own inet connection? i think not. Think i make this very post on a ip that can be tracked back to me? Think again.
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