Re: RIAA timestamps off

[Chris Edwards <chris () ENG GLA AC UK>]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:50:42 EDT, David Taylor said:

|  I'm wondering if they are just going by the name of the file without even
|  verifying the contents of the file.

Quite possibly.  However it seems a unlikely the user is using P2P to
share out something legit with a filename of "Harry Potter Stone.mp3".


On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:

| One has to wonder if this isn't a Beavis-and-Butthead routine, where one
| group hired by the RIAA to seed file sharing networks with bogus and corrupt
| versions of files has managed to plonk a suspiciously named file onto
| somebody's hard drive, and then the *other* group hired by the RIAA to find
| violators has found said file...

Sounds plausible.

Guess I missed the B+B episode featuring P2P filesharing...


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Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service