August 01, 2003

Finding out if the RIAA may be after you

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a nifty little database with the IP numbers and usernames of people that the RIAA has filed a subpoena for in the DC District court. It's not perfect - they only have information on ones that have already been filed in the CD court, and they note that it's possible that a subpeona has been filed but they haven't gotten the information on it yet. Still, its nice to be able to check in, and it can help offer some peace of mind.

They also note that, from what they've seen, it looks like the RIAA is mainly going after people who have offered a large number of files for downloading or who run a "supernode" that can serve as a part of the backbone for P2P sharing networks.

Posted by thorswitch at August 1, 2003 06:30 AM | TrackBack


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