The guys at techdirt.com are reporting that the RIAA dropped two cases recently where the defendant claimed that it was not him using the IP to download copyrighted files. The only evidence the RIAA lawyers can gather when opening a case is the IP address that did the download. Every IP address in use can be traced back to a person who was given that IP at the time of the downloads.
They always argued that the person who owned the connection would be the same person who did the downloads which in itself is not logical. What about shared connections, insecure wireless connections and the like ? It seems that the lawyers are not sure that their “evidence” would hold up in court and decided to drop the case before a judge would make them lose the case.
Losing a case would mean that it would not be possible to collect IPs of down loaders and sue the person paying for the connection. This could possibly mean that they would not be able to sue a single down loader because their “evidence” would hold in court. Better drop the case and hope that not to many read this story..
If you know someone who is getting sued by the RIAA let him know about this article and the link to techdirt, this could help him a lot.
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I heard recently RIAA picked on the Worng Guy (millionaire IP pro). Was this one dropped?
I´am not sure but I think this has not been dropped as of now. The guy runs digitalpoint.com for instance, one of the biggest webmaster forums on the net.