A Case of Mistaken Identity in File Sharing Lawsuit?

| Commentary | The Recording Industry Association of America continues to file lawsuits for illegal Internet music file sharing. RIAA has withdrawn at least one suit possibly because of potential mistaken identity. (Not too many senior citizens out there are listening to Busta Rhymes.)

To identify the individuals to be sued, RIAA apparently obtains Web server logs from the ISP and tries to match the IP addresses listed with their account and login names. Because most ISP customers get dynamic (DHCP) addresses, different customers can have the same IP address at different times, even on the same day. In theory it's not that difficult to do, but mistakes are possible, obviously.