atmaspheric | endeavors

The recording industry has withdrawn a lawsuit against a Newbury woman because it falsely accused her of illegally sharing music — possibly the first case of mistaken identity in the battle against Internet file-traders. [Boston.com]

Seems an open AP enabled a windows user to trade music over a Mac households network which confused the intelligence gathered by the RIAA. Perhaps the more who share the bandwidth the more likely the RIAA is to have to drop suits due to lack of evidence…