The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has levelled a full legal barrage at the sole Kazaa user fighting its attempts to identify file-swappers, saying she was indisputably a major copyright infringer.
In papers filed this week with a federal court in Washington, the RIAA said it did not oppose the anonymous Kazaa user’s request to fight the subpoena seeking her identity but that any such motion should be filed immediately. Previously, “Jane Doe’s” attorneys had asked for more time to prepare their case arguing that the RIAA subpoena, filed with internet service provider Verizon Communications, violated her privacy and other constitutional rights.
The RIAA wrote in its brief: “It is now clear that her objections have been either previously rejected by this court or are totally irrelevant to a subpoena enforcement proceeding. [She] will be able to raise whatever arguments she wants in the copyright infringement action that is sure to follow.”
The ongoing legal skirmishes will help stabilise the process by which the RIAA seeks the identity of file-swappers, and ultimately, files lawsuits against them. But the latest round of briefs also gave new insight into exactly what kind of evidence the group will level against accused file swappers in court.
