During the course of a lawsuit the RIAA switches from the initial ISP subscriber to more appropriate targets if found. This tactic would not be acceptable in criminal court, but the RIAA can get away with it as a civil suit.
The world’s largest software maker is suing the developer of a program that allows users to circumvent digital rights protection from Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio (WMA) song format.
For more than a month, the Redmond, Wash., company has been combating a program released online called FairUse4WM, which successfully stripped anticopying guards from songs downloaded through subscription media services such as Napster or Yahoo Music.
Preclusion Motion Filed in UMG v. Lindor; Lindor Says RIAA Cannot Introduce Songs into Lawsuit if it Has Not Produced Song Files