A Verizon Internet Services customer accused of offering copyrighted songs on a file-sharing network is fighting the RIAA's attempts to obtain her identity from the ISP.
A number of the subpoenas issued by the RIAA have been resisted by the ISPs and colleges that they have been issued against, but this the first time an individual has taken action. The anonymous woman's lawyer, Daniel Ballard, told Verizon: "We intend to contest the subpoena." It's not entirely clear yet what her case will be based on – though presumably she will try to say the subpoena contravenes her rights to privacy.
At least five ISPs, have fought the subpoenas by contending they weren't properly served, and last week, a Massachusetts federal judge upheld Boston College and MIT's right to ignore the subpoenas on the same grounds.