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...Medvid, the Ukrainian sailor from a Soviet grain freighter who jumped ship twice, only to be returned both times. After Ukrainian-American groups protested that Medvid had been pressured by the Soviets into retracting his request for asylum, Republican Senator Jesse Helms took the extraordinary step of issuing a subpoena for Medvid to appear before a Senate committee (see following story...
...such cases, the plaintiff typically would subpoena the colleges and universities involved in order to obtain the names of the people using those IP addresses...
...lawsuits have been filed with “John Doe” as the defendant, as in previous cases. This means that the RIAA only knows the IP addresses of the students involved, and the defendants’ names are later obtained from the colleges or universities by subpoena...
Wrinn said Harvard “will follow all the requirements of the subpoena[s]” when such documents are filed...
Consider, for example, the recent notice of pending subpoena submitted to the associate Provost’s Office by the RIAA, mentioned in the Crimson on March 18th. It suggested that at least two cases of copyright infringement had been traced back to computers in the Longwood Medical Area, and that a request for the identity of the infringing parties would likely soon be filed with the courts...