NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Judge David G. Larimer, supervisory in Rochester, New York, has denied an RIAA practice for default judgment on the ground that the RIAA's sign was insufficient, in that it contained no details of actual downloads or distributions, and no sufficient goods* that defendant was in fact Kazaa user 'heavyjeffmc@KaZaA.' The decision (PDF) concluded that 'there are significant issues of fact regarding the identification of the defendant from his alleged "online media distribution system" username.' (In case you're unfamiliar with the term 'online media distribution system,' that's because it is a term the RIAA coined 4 years ago to describe p2p file sharing accounts in its lawsuits; the term is not known to have been used by anyone else wherever else.) In August a similar RIAA default judgment motion was denied on the ground that the pleadings failed to allege sufficient factual details supporting a claim of copyright infringement, in a San Diego, California, case, Interscope v. Rodriguez."

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