RIAA dumps another case

This week the RIAA dropped another case, presumably before it had the PR nightmare of having another defendant acquitted.

Lee Thao was sued in the Eastern District of Wisconsin by BMG Music and other record labels for allegedly sharing files over the Kazaa network.

The RIAA said it was certain that Thao was a pirate because it got the data for the case from his cable modem. It got the details of who owned the cable modem from his ISP.

The only problem was that Thao was not a subscriber to the ISP at the time of the alleged file-sharing, and therefore did not have possession of the suspect cable modem.

Cable modems are usually supplied new by ISPs. It makes you wonder how the RIAA could have been getting evidence from a cable modem which was in a plastic wrapper on a shelf at the time of the so-called offence.

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