An nameless reader writes "A Dartmouth professor's anatomy of MediaSentry problems helped win a New Hampshire woman's RIAA music-download lawsuit. 'Since all of Plaintiffs' claims are based on the assumption that MediaSentry's systems program and microcomputer shape are trustworthy and free of errors, and this log clearly represents a failure of the MediaSentry disk overhead budget system to perform the operation it claims to describe, the reliability and validity of the MediaSentry method should be questioned,' wrote dean Sergey Bratus in his report, dated May 30. 'In my opinion, these materials leave critical aspects of MediaSentry's testament compilation process undocumented. In my opinion, they express unwarranted assumptions relative to both os/2 and network technologies involved, and attempt to create an illusion of evidence-supported certainty where it does not exist.'" The full report (PDF) is free online. It's worth noting that this victory was not the outcome of a court ruling; rather, a or will.
decidedness was reached that did not require the defendant, Mavis Roy, to pay all to the RIAA.

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