RIAA Wants to Include Song Files it Can't Produce

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In UMG v. Lindor the RIAA is trying to include song files it doesn't have copies of as part of its 'distribution' argument. The defendant Marie Lindor is asking the Court to preclude them from doing that. She points to the RIAA's own interrogatory response in which the record companies swore that their case was based upon their investigator seeing a screenshot and then downloading 'perfect digital copies'. They produced eleven (11) copies of song files, but want to be able to prove twenty seven (27) other songs for which they can't produce the files."

Continuing the spread of crap...

[Tsuki_no_Hikari]

"Our investigator saw a screenshot of an IP address we traced back to them."

"We used a reverse DNS lookup to find out that this was the computer used for the downloading."

"Our investigator downloaded a perfect copy of the file downloaded by the defendant in a process of reverse spectral resonance."

"We figured 'To hell with it' and crossed the beams. Once we realized the universe didn't end, we found a burn mark that resembled the offending computer's IP address."

What new wonders of the universe will the RIAA educate judges on next week? :D Oh, I can't wait!

Well...

[d3m0nCr4t]

Shoudn't the RIAA start to sue themselves ? They downloaded copies of songs to there computer, and now they are shareing them with a judge...

if a screenshot is the only prove

[aitan]

Well, I'm safe because right now I've made it very clear that I'm not sharing anything with copyright. A screenshot would look like this:
This is not Metallica - Enter sandman
This is not Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor
This is not King Kong (Peter Jackson)

Re:WTF? Copies? Files?

[penguinbrat]

Wayyy back when, somewhere in the middle east - David saught out Goliath.

In the US - Goliath seeks out David...

This is a fine idea

[goldcd]

We locate the spam-seeder - take a screen grab of the file names - report them to the RIAA and watch them sue themselves.