Go see if you've been subpoenaed!
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File-sharers can find out if they are being targeted by the US record industry via a website created by civil liberty activists.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, (EFF), has set up an online database which allows people to check if a subpoena has been issued for them by the Recording Industry Association of America, (RIAA).
"We hope that EFF's subpoena database will give people some peace of mind and the information they need to challenge these subpoenas and protect their privacy," said the group's senior lawyer Fred Von Lohmann.
Hundreds of subpoenas have been sent to suspected file-sharers as part of the industry's battle to stop people swapping songs over the internet.
Legal details
Using the EFF site, people can check the name they used for file-sharing against a list of subpoenas issued in a Washington court.
The recording industry continues its futile crusade to sue thousands of the more than 60 million people who use file-sharing software in the US
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3102261.stm
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File-sharers can find out if they are being targeted by the US record industry via a website created by civil liberty activists.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, (EFF), has set up an online database which allows people to check if a subpoena has been issued for them by the Recording Industry Association of America, (RIAA).
"We hope that EFF's subpoena database will give people some peace of mind and the information they need to challenge these subpoenas and protect their privacy," said the group's senior lawyer Fred Von Lohmann.
Hundreds of subpoenas have been sent to suspected file-sharers as part of the industry's battle to stop people swapping songs over the internet.
Legal details
Using the EFF site, people can check the name they used for file-sharing against a list of subpoenas issued in a Washington court.
The recording industry continues its futile crusade to sue thousands of the more than 60 million people who use file-sharing software in the US
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3102261.stm