{"id":1172,"date":"2003-08-12T01:14:11","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/12\/bc-and-mit-challenge-mp3-supoenas\/"},"modified":"2003-08-12T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2003-08-12T05:14:11","slug":"bc-and-mit-challenge-mp3-supoenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/12\/bc-and-mit-challenge-mp3-supoenas\/","title":{"rendered":"BC and MIT Challenge MP3 Supoenas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a593'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In what the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has deemed<br \/>\na &#8220;minor procedural issue,&#8221; a federal judge ruled that some of the<br \/>\nRIAA&#8217;s subpoenas are invalid because they were issued from the wrong<br \/>\njurisdiction. <\/p>\n<p>Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of<br \/>\nTechnology recently received subpoenas requesting the identities of<br \/>\nstudents suspected of illegally trading copyrighted material, but the<br \/>\nschools noted that the subpoenas were issued from Washington, D.C., and<br \/>\nshould not be valid in Massachusetts. <\/p>\n<p>Judge Joseph L. Tauro agreed and threw out those subpoenas. The RIAA said the ruling does not change the &#8220;undeniable fact&#8221; that Internet service providers, in this case the universities in question, are legally required to reveal the identities of suspected copyright violators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3140933.stm\"><br \/>\nfrom the BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has deemed a &#8220;minor procedural issue,&#8221; a federal judge ruled that some of the RIAA&#8217;s subpoenas are invalid because they were issued from the wrong jurisdiction. Boston College and the Massachusetts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/12\/bc-and-mit-challenge-mp3-supoenas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}