“That’s the whole point of why they’re doing the DMCA subpoenas,” Gray says. “They get the person’s identity, where they live, and they hire a private investigator. It happens all the time. It is very common in infringement lawsuits to conduct an investigation of the defendant prior to suing them.”
Gray adds: “They’re going to cherry-pick the most unsympathetic defendants. You don’t want someone on TV looking like cherubic Heidi or with a record like Mother Teresa. You want a skanky pimple-scarred gangbanger.”
Godwin, the lawyer from Public Knowledge, is even more emphatic:“They want to determine that the defendant has a lot of piercings and a tattoo. Preferably unemployed, dropped out of college, has lice and bad beard maintenance, and he’s somehow using the MIT broadband network to distribute this to pirates in the Pacific Rim. That would be the perfect RIAA defendant.”
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