Hours after a federal court judge ordered Oklahoma State University to show cause why it shouldn't be held in contempt for failing to respond to an RIAA subpoena, attorneys for the school e-mailed a list of students' names to the RIAA's attorneys. But now that the RIAA has what it wanted, the group is unsure about how to go about sending out its prelitigation settlement letters. Some of the students are represented by an attorney, meaning that the RIAA is barred from contacting them directly.
story: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... tempt.html
lmao, this is laughable, the Riaa tie up the court systems to get the names responsible for the alleged infringement, when they finally get them, they cant even work out who they can and cant contact. They are also overlooking the fact that although they have IP's and names, they have no actual proof of who did what. In addition the info they have got is provided by MediaSentry, who themselves are looking like they are in hot water for acting as the Riaa's private investigators, without a PI license.
My bet is this will drag on for a while and get thrown out, or the Riaa wil bail. When will the idiots learn they should be bringing their business model into 2008 and not waste time trying to sue college kids and others who no doubt have at sometime and will in the future be their potential customer base.
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