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According to Robert Mitchell, director of communications for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the RIAA has sent at least one “pre-subpoena letter” to the Associate Provost’s office. The letter serves as an “advance warning” that a student or students will “probably be subpoenaed,” Mitchell said...
While those two lawsuits did not seem to be aimed at students in the College, Mitchell said the pre-subpoena letter did concern undergraduates...
Under normal circumstances, Harvard will not disclose names of students who use IP addresses that have been implicated in illegal file sharing. However, Mitchell said, if required to do so by a subpoena, the University will comply...
...point Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of The New York Times gathered material for stories about the Plame scandal. Cooper testified about one source—Dick Cheney’s chief of staff (who released Cooper from his confidentiality obligations)—and then was subpoenaed a second time to testify about other confidential sources. Miller, who never wrote a story, was also served with a subpoena seeking information about her sources. Both refused to testify, and they and their media outlets have since carried out a court battle against the subpoenas...
...case, Branzburg v. Hayes, in which a reporter witnessed two individuals “synthesizing hashish from marihuana [sic].” We are no legal experts, but both Branzburg, and the two cases the Court cited in its decision to deny Branzburg his petition to quash a subpoena, involved a reporter offering confidentiality in order to observe criminal acts. Irrespective of the propriety of this precedent, the cases seem to be utterly and completely different; Cooper and Miller were gathering facts on a crime that had already occurred, a crime that in the first place was the leaking...