Subpoena

Okay, so the most possibly annoying thing happened just within the first hour. So I woke up late today and checked my e-mail like I usually do, and apparently I get a little present e-mail from UCSD. Here's some excerpts.

We recently received a letter that a subpoena will be served regarding the illegal distribution of copyrighted material from a computer registered to you. The subpoena warning alerts us that this company has identified your computer as distributing copyrighted material, intends to file a lawsuit and will be serving a subpoena to UCSD to obtain your name and contact information.

UCSD's response will be as follows:

1. The first notice is a warning, but your connection has been blocked temporarily in case your computer has been compromised and to prevent you from getting more copyright violations.
2.You will be required to schedule an appointment with the ACS Help Desk, and will need to bring in your computer. Your connection will be blocked until the appointment has been completed. (Like I have no idea how to do this if I'm in a different country almost on the opposite side of the world.)

So right now, I am quite annoyed, not panicking. Why? Well let's see..... First I haven't downloaded any music illegally for the past couple years. Second, they basically shut-down my research project in China by closing my access to UCSD servers/clusters through VPN.

So yeah.... Really annoyed right now. I think I'm deciding to fight this rather than do a settlement because I feel that I've been wrongfully accused of a crime I did not commit.

You know, now I think about it, I think this e-mail has shown a lot about me. First, I did not really panic. I was more on the lines of like, "What the heck?" And second, I saw this from a purely legal point of view and contacted my parents to find me a lawyer.

But now after reading this e-mail again, I just figured out that this is a warning. But still, this warning is really annoying since I'm not quite sure what I'm getting warned about. (I've been freaking buying my music for over 2 years now off of iTunes!!!! My latest iTunes receipt says 01/05/2005) I guess this continues to demonstrate how the RIAA is flawed still by not quite knowing who the heck they're targetting.