Follow Up of the Day: The RIAA has responded to accusations that its employees illegally downloaded TV shows by falling back on a common defense for illegal downloaders: they say someone else was using their IP addresses.
According to a spokesperson for the organization, “Those partial IP addresses are similar to block addresses assigned to RIAA. However, those addresses are used by a third party vendor to serve up our public Web site … They are not used by RIAA staff to access the Internet.”
According to whois records, though, the addresses aren’t just “similar to” RIAA IP addresses. The entire block is registered to the RIAA.
The spokesman declined to name the “third party” who allegedly downloaded all five seasons of Dexter, but I’m sure he’d like the copyright owners of the pirated TV episodes to treat the mystery downloader just as harshly as the RIAA treats alleged music pirates.
Right?
[gizmodo]
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