Lawsuits Dropped - Unsound Evidence ?

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I think this shows the scatter gun approach to p2p users is unsound and unreliable.

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/

Sony BMG, along with BMG Music, Arista Records, and Loud Records, has voluntarily dropped out of the Atlantic v. Does 1-25 case in Manhattan federal court.
Sony BMG had voluntarily dismissed its claims, last week, in Elektra v. Barker.
No explanation for the voluntary discontinuance has been given.

I think that its time the Cartel actually came up with reliable proof rather than untechnical "Waffle" when they try to threaten folks in a sleazy and underhand extortion racket that the law suits have become.

below is a technical analysis dismissing most of the supposed technical arguments of media sentry and others who act as bounty hunters for the industry

http://www.lifeofalawyer.com/riaa/atlantic_does1-25_ziaffidavit.pdf

After reading this I can see why they are in a rush to withdraw many of the unsound cases that they have been allowed to bring.
My concern is what about the innocent folks who pay the extortion money because to do so would jepordize their entire futures ?

These people have no moral scruples in suing the dead and toddlers as has been noticed previously.
Perhaps their attitude fuels others into defiance, respect is a two way street.

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More info on why they pulled these cases

http://p2pnet.net/story/7850

Did RIAA spokesman Jonathon Whitehead switch the names of two completely different p2p applications in a deliberate bid to fool a court hearing a p2p file sharing case?

The question is raised in an affidavit presented in the latest stage of Atlantic Recording v John Does 1-25.

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) still claims the existence of metadata in shared folders is enough to prove copyright infringement took place, but the assertion has again been roundly attacked by programming expert Zi Mei.


"Whitehead shot himself in the foot with his latest declaration," Mei told p2pnet. "He asserts that all Does are Gnutella users, directly contradicting earlier testimony, which included pages of Kazaa screenshots.

"This demonstrates that he either doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, or that he's simply inventing evidence and switching to Limewire after we totally destroyed him on the Kazaa stuff, hoping no one would notice.

"It's obvious that Mr. Whitehead doesn't know Kazaa from a kazoo either, or he's simply pretending he doesn't. The RIAA's 'investigative' techniques are sloppy and harmful, to say the least."

After weeks of non-stop, principally voluntary, work to meet the February 7 deadline, Mei today submitted his second affidavit, revealing telling holes in RIAA spokesman Jonathon Whitehead's second set of assertions in Atlantic v. John Does 1-25, and also, "pointing out its inconsistencies with the first declaration, as well as its inconsistency with the way computers work, and with the way the internet works," says Recording Industry vs The People.

I hope you can all see that given a technically qualified defense the industry propaganda machine has to rapidly withdraw cases or be ruled against, something they are very scared of it seems.