One more stands up to RIAA for filesharing

Another brave soul has decided to take on the RIAA in its filesharing battle with the world. This time it’s Rolando Armurao, who is accused of sharing some 500 songs through the free filesharing program Limewire. In this case, it’s been suggested that Media Sentry operated without a private investigator’s license in its filesharing snooping.

Media Sentry is a company paid by record labels to track down people who are up to no good with free filesharing software like Limewire. The information is passed onto the RIAA to be used in court.

Apparently, this evidence-gathering business almost always requires a license. Once again, it’s unclear how this filesharing duel will pan out. Usually in these cases, a lengthy courtroom debate is set up or else the cases are settled out of court. Rolando Armurao will be lucky to get out of this one without being fined, but only time will tell.

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Posted on 4 February 2008 by mike in Filesharing