The RIAA is flaunting its expert witness’s credentials as it figh...
The RIAA is flaunting its expert witness’s credentials as it fights a request to turn over the expert’s hard drive examination report in UMG v. Lindor, the defense said. It asked the U.S. Dist. Court, Brooklyn to bar new…
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submissions by plaintiffs until the report is turned over. The report was completed months before RIAA, in another case, lost for the first time on a request for its own expert to analyze a defendant’s hard drive (WID Oct 30 p4). The trade group Tues. submitted a 26-page resume of Doug Jacobson -- dir. of Ia. State U.’s Information Assurance Center and RIAA’s go-to witness in multiple file-sharing cases -- to accompany Jacobson’s analysis of file-sharing activity that he traced to Marie Lindor’s son. RIAA is trying to compel Gustav Lindor to turn over his hard drive. The defense hasn’t yet taken a deposition of Jacobson. “As the court knows we have now been waiting more than four and a half months for Dr. Jacobson’s report, and the ability to depose him as to that report, his credentials, and any other expert witness materials,” Lindor defense lawyer Ray Beckerman said. He asked the court to strike any more materials from Jacobson, deny any motion based on his testimony, and issue “stern sanctions” against RIAA “for their sharp practice” in the case.