{"id":3572,"date":"2004-08-22T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2004-08-22T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/08\/22\/p2p-user-defended-by-eff-chooses-to-"},"modified":"2004-08-22T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2004-08-22T22:00:07","slug":"p2p-user-defended-by-eff-chooses-to-settle-with-riaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/08\/22\/p2p-user-defended-by-eff-chooses-to-settle-with-riaa\/","title":{"rendered":"P2P User Defended by EFF Chooses to Settle with RIAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a754'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost a year ago, the EFF <A href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/IP\/P2P\/20031014_eff_pr.php\">agreed to defend<\/A> Ross Plank, who claimed that the RIAA had mistakenly identified him as an infringer.&nbsp; According to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/music\/articles\/2004\/08\/20\/slow_moving_lawsuits_over_music_downloads_producing_court_twists\/\">this article<\/A>&nbsp;(via <A href=\"http:\/\/msl1.mit.edu\/furdlog\/\">Furdlog<\/A>), Plank paid an $11,000 settlement &#8220;after lawyers found on his computer traces of hundreds of songs that had been deleted one day after he was sued.&#8221;&nbsp; Ouch for Mr. Plank, and perhaps a bit of egg on the face for the EFF.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not clear whether the songs they found were the ones originally cited in the lawsuit or others.&nbsp; I wonder what he told the EFF before they took on the case and if they were given the full story.&nbsp; Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year ago, the EFF agreed to defend Ross Plank, who claimed that the RIAA had mistakenly identified him as an infringer.&nbsp; According to this article&nbsp;(via Furdlog), Plank paid an $11,000 settlement &#8220;after lawyers found on his computer traces of hundreds of songs that had been deleted one day after he was sued.&#8221;&nbsp; Ouch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}