The Recording Industry Association of America has given up pursuing two people it had accused of pirating music on the University of Pennsylvania’s computer network, citing its inability to identify them. In "John Doe" subpoenas filed in December, industry lawyers identified the two people by their computers’ Internet-protocol numbers and asked Penn officials to turn over names to match the data. But, in a rare roadblock to the industry’s litigation campaign, the university decided that its computer logs weren’t accurate enough to name names.
For more on Penn’s decision not to respond to the subpoena, see an article from The Chronicle by Brock Read.
