News Oregon Attorney General to the RIAA: “Hell No!”
posted by on November 2 at 16:45 PM
I’m no lawyer, but the way I read this motion by the Oregon Attorney General on behalf of the University of Oregon is this: It runs serious interference on the RIAA’s legal strategy to shut down file sharing.
More details at Electronic Frontier Foundation
Wow, a link from the Slog Main Page to a page with more links and no substance. At least give a summary of what happened.
Here, #1:
The University of Oregon filed a motion to quash the RIAA subpoena because it is overbroad. The U of O's responsibilities under such a subpoena are to disclose information as it's kept in the regular course of business. The U of O does not possess the information sought (the identities of the student users) and would have to proactively investigate in order to produce this information. This is beyond their duty as proscribed in the rules under which the subpoena was issued.
Oregon's AG, Hardy Myers, is an old school law & order guy - which means he is not impressed by an overbroad subpoena that comes from the record industry. I'm sure it doesn't hurt that the President of the University of Oregon, Dave Frohnmeyer, is a former AG himself.
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