[ga] Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Yet again the RIAA has "Stepped in it"!

  When will ICANN get the message?  Time to offload, give the boot
to the RIAA.  When will the IPC realize they have a significant
liability to themselves and to ICANN?

See:

 http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ writes "Protesting that
Tufts University's DHCP-based systems 'were not designed to facilitate
forensic
examinations,' but rather to ensure 'smooth operations and to manage
capacity issues,' the IT Office at Tufts University
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/08/difficulties-in-matching-ip-address-to.html

has responded to the subpoena in an RIAA case, Zomba v. Does 1-11, by
submitting
http://beckermanlegal.com/Documents/zomba_does1-11_080728TuftsToJudge.pdf
a report to the judge (PDF) explaining why it cannot cross-match IP
addresses and MAC addresses, or identify users accurately. The IT office

explained that the system identifies machines, not users; that some MAC
addresses have multiple users; that only the Address Resolution Protocol

system has even the potential to match IP addresses with MAC addresses,
but that system could not do so accurately. For reasons which are
unclear, the IT department then suggested that the RIAA next time send
them 'notices to preserve information,' in response to which they would
preserve, rather than overwrite, the DHCP data, for the RIAA's forensic
benefit."

Regards,

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