Court Sets Rules For RIAA Hard Drive Inspection
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “In a Boston RIAA case, SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Court has issued a detailed protective order establishing strict protocols for the RIAA’s requested inspection of the defendant’s hard drive, in order to protect the defendant’s privacy. The order (PDF) provides that the hard drive will be turned over to a computer forensics expert of the RIAA’s choosing, for mirror imaging, but that only the forensics expert — and not the plaintiffs or their attorneys — will be able to examine the mirror image. The forensics expert will then issue a report which will describe (a) any music files found on the drive, (b) any file-sharing information associated with each file, and any other records of file-sharing activity, and (c) any evidence that the hard-drive has been ‘wiped’ or erased since the initiation of the litigation. The expert will be precluded from examining ‘any non-relevant files or data, including … emails, word-processing documents, PDF documents, spreadsheet documents, image files, video files, or stored web-pages.'”
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