Word: subpoena
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Though the University has not yet declared an official response policy should it receive file-sharing subpoena orders, those familiar with Harvard’s policy on file sharing said the University would probably comply with any legal imperatives it should encounter in the future...
...service was put out of business, he switched to its most popular successor, Kazaa. But he was careful not to leave a trace, transferring all his downloaded songs to separate discs. A visiting teenage grandson wasn't so careful, however, and last week Barnes, 50, was slapped with a subpoena from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It alleged that he had posted online--for the world to steal--digital copies of songs by Savage Garden, Marvin Gaye and the Eagles. "This is like shock and awe," says Barnes. "Blitz them until they submit...
...This is turning into a subpoena mill," says Sarah Deutsch, associate general counsel for Verizon, after receiving more than 200 requests for identities. "We're not just going to roll over and allow this kind of process." Not every ISP feels the same. Comcast, the cable-TV company that sells high-speed Internet access on the side, has announced its intention to cooperate with RIAA. So has Chicago's Loyola University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University, by contrast, have gone to court to protect students' identities...
...Enron controversy spreads to Harvard as Corporation member Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65 receives a subpoena from the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for his connection with Enron’s collapse. He was then the chair of Enron’s finance committee...
Instead, serious crimes like rape should be investigated in Massachusetts state court, where prosecutors have power to requisition evidence and subpoena witness testimony, and where all parties are guaranteed due process under the law. A state court, not Harvard, has the necessary means and enforcement power to ensure that all parties are treated fairly...