If you have the time and the inclination, pay a visit to this page, where you can find about two years worth of documents related to the RIAA’s action against Marie Lindor. I am having difficulty understanding why this case still lives, given that the RIAA insists that a) Files were shared from her computer, which was not networked according to their expert, via Kazaa. They insist that the Media Sentry reports prove that music files were uploaded and/or downloaded via Kazaa; and b)There is no trace of Kazaa anywhere on her hard drive.
If you’ve ever used Kazaa, you know that the only way to really get rid of it is to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows and everything else. Their expert says that the drive was not reformatted.
In yet another twist, the expert now claims that an external hard drive was attached to the computer. The problem is that even if an external drive were attached, Kazaa would leave trails in the registry of the boot drive. It’s not something that can be run on an external drive without inserting registry entries.
Also, does anyone know if Western Digital made 100GB external drives in 2004? That seems big for that time frame.
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All I can say after reading comments by Ray Beckerman, as well as how he handles a deposition in the case you link, I would not have him for a lawyer.
All I can say after reading comments by Ray Beckerman, as well as how he handles a deposition in the case you link, I would not have him for a lawyer.