[1426] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Globe: BC, MIT decline to name students in music-use case
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared M Showalter)
Tue Jul 22 12:17:35 2003
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:15:29 -0400
From: Jared M Showalter <jareds@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <y688yqqbrq8.fsf@multics.mit.edu>
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, David Z Maze wrote:
> >From http://www.boston.com/news/daily/22/mit_bc.htm:
>
> Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, citing
> concerns about student privacy, moved yesterday to quash subpoenas
> issued by the recording industry to discover the identities of
> students the industry says are illegally distributing copyrighted
> music.
>
> Yay MIT for standing up to the RIAA, I think...
It doesn't seem like MIT even knows the identity of students using
particular IP addresses with enough certainty for use in court. Although
it does assign IP addresses to individual students, there is no mechanism
to prevent anyone in a dorm from using the IP address of someone else in
the dorm, as long as they don't try to use it simultaneously.
Jared
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