Oklahoma Security Expert Attacks RIAA Claims

[Mark Carras]

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A group of Oklahoma University students has made a motion to vacate the ex parte order the RIAA had obtained compelling the university to turn over their names and addresses. In support of their motion was the expert witness declaration (PDF) of a computer security and forensics expert who essentially attacked the entire premise of the RIAA's lawsuit, characterizing the declaration upon which the RIAA based its motion as 'factually erroneous' and 'misleading.' Among other things he pointed out that 'An individual cannot be uniquely identified by an IP address,' and that 'Many computers can be connected to the Internet with identical IP addresses as long as they remain behind control points.' The students are represented by the same Oklahoma lawyer who recently obtained a award for $68,000-plus in attorneys fees against the RIAA in Capitol v. Foster."Read more of this story (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/07/2316248&from=rss) at Slashdot.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=7mqF5n</img> (http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=7mqF5n)
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/141828715

More... (http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/141828715/article.pl)