Comments on: Judge Lets RIAA Subpoena a Defendant’s Former Employer http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8953/judge_lets_riaa_subpoena_a_defendants_former_employer/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:05:53 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Michael Iron http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8953/judge_lets_riaa_subpoena_a_defendants_former_employer/#comment-182675 Michael Iron Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-182675 I wonder if Verizons ISP server machine clocks match those of Media Sentrys servers in the real time. I wonder if back in 2005 they matched exactly to the second. God forbid they are in 2 different time zones or even 10 seconds off and the wrong person gets blaimed for illegal file sharing. Most ISP's radius servers issue IP's ba<x>sed on a dynamic radius server connection. Only businesses or people with special firewall needs require fixed ip addresses. Lets say that a user connected to his ISP (Verizon) at August 17th 2005 at 2:59 (according to the article) and disconnected after 10 seconds. 20 seconds later (Verizon is a busy ISP with millions of users) somebody else connected to the Internet using the same IP. Remember there are only 254 addresses in a 24 bit class C so the routing automatically sends people to the first available IP address. It sucks that Verizon would point their finger at one of their own paying clients without doing a full investigation of their own network against Sentry. If it were me Id make the ISP Verizon turn over all of their logs (million and millions of pages with all usernames and accounts...) and I'd also demand the millions and millions of logs from Sentry/RIAA - ba<x>sed on the American basic judicial right to FULL DISCLOSURE. I hope that whoever got sued is reading my words cause it appears that they have shitty legal representation. I wonder if Verizons ISP server machine clocks match those of Media Sentrys servers in the real time. I wonder if back in 2005 they matched exactly to the second. God forbid they are in 2 different time zones or even 10 seconds off and the wrong person gets blaimed for illegal file sharing.

Most ISP’s radius servers issue IP’s based on a dynamic radius server connection. Only businesses or people with special firewall needs require fixed ip addresses.

Lets say that a user connected to his ISP (Verizon) at August 17th 2005 at 2:59 (according to the article) and disconnected after 10 seconds. 20 seconds later (Verizon is a busy ISP with millions of users) somebody else connected to the Internet using the same IP. Remember there are only 254 addresses in a 24 bit class C so the routing automatically sends people to the first available IP address.

It sucks that Verizon would point their finger at one of their own paying clients without doing a full investigation of their own network against Sentry. If it were me Id make the ISP Verizon turn over all of their logs (million and millions of pages with all usernames and accounts…) and I’d also demand the millions and millions of logs from Sentry/RIAA – based on the American basic judicial right to FULL DISCLOSURE.

I hope that whoever got sued is reading my words cause it appears that they have shitty legal representation.

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