Oregon AG Office Oregon Attorney General, Hardy Myers is suspicious of the RIAA. |
Oregon’s Attorney General has started asking some questions of the RIAA, citing ‘undue burden’ on some college students in the state.
Recently the RIAA sent subpoenas to 17 students at University of Oregon. As usual these Subpoenas claim that the RIAA has evidence of copyright infringement, and they are planning to hold the recipient financially responsible for the infringement.
The Attorney General, however, wants to know how exactly they got this evidence, since under Oregon law, one needs a license to ‘conduct investigations’ in Oregon, and the RIAA has no such license, meaning that if they do indeed have legally biding evidence, they may need legal help themselves.
The AG also wants to know exactly how much monetary damage these students have caused, and wants it broken down in a full report detailing exact losses and the time, date and cause of each lost penny.
Finally, the AG is not impressed with the subpoenas themselves, which seem to present the recipient with a flood of ‘seemingly overwhelming evidence’ while, in fact, not having solid evidence of anything. Which suggests that the subpoenas themselves are more scare-tactic than true legal concerns.
The RIAA’s response to the motion essentially boils down the the age-old ‘villain’s argument’: “You weren’t a hero when I did it to others, why so suddenly concerned now?”
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