9 September 2003. Thanks to A.
From today's [hardcopy] "The Tech" -- will be up on web later today or tomorrow.
MIT answered a subpoena from the record industry last night, naming Claudiu A. Prisnel '06 in response to the industry association's request for the name of a network user ... . Prisnel, a member of Theta Delta Chi, denies that he is the "alleged infringer" identified by the association's subpoena ... . "Between the dates of May 25, 2003 and August 25, 2003, I have been travelling in Europe," he wrote to MIT attorney Mark DiVincenzo... . "In particular, on June 27, at the time of the alleged infringement, I was in Romania."Prisnel, who is Romanian, showed a reporter copies of immigration documents and airplane tickets that appear to support his account. ... Prisnel says he has never owned a computer in the United States, a fact to which 20 other students signed a statement attesting on his behalf. And, Prisnel wrote to DiVincenzo, "I have never used or been affiliated with the user name 'crazyface@KaZaA,' " which was identified by the ... RIAA as the KaZaA account used.