How Not To Defend Yourself Against An RIAA Lawsuit

There are plenty of reasonable ways to defend yourself against an RIAA lawsuit over file sharing. For example, you can show how your IP address is shared by many others and it’s impossible for the RIAA to know who was actually responsible. However, one thing you should absolutely not do is erase your hard drive — especially when there’s a court order demanding you produce the hard drive as evidence.

Hmm. Yes I could see how this would appear a little fishy. However, was this guy not aware that he could easily write zeros to the remaining free space on his drive? I think that would have helped his case a lot more. Or… handing in a different hard drive could work. It surprises me, that the RIAA didn’t go and grab the hard drive from him, but rather sits back and waits for him to bring it in. Ahh, the softer side of the RIAA.