From MIT’s The Tech: The Recording Industry Association of America will send MIT a second subpoena seeking the identity of a network user alleged to have been illegally “offering hundreds of copyrighted works to the world-at-large” from MIT’s network through the KaZaA file-sharing system, an RIAA spokesman said last night.
This time, the RIAA will file the subpoena the way MIT has asked: through the federal district court in Boston, instead of Washington, D.C. MIT says it will comply with a subpoena issued through the Boston court.
If the computer’s owner can convince MIT officials that he or she is not responsible for the infringement, it is not clear if MIT will release the owner’s name to the RIAA. The DMCA requires MIT to release “information sufficient to identify the alleged infringer of the material described … to the extent such information is available to the service provider.”
