In the Fight Over Piracy, a Rare Stand for Privacy

[Unfortunately privacy is not a right explicitly protected in our U.S. Constitution. Back when William O. Douglas suggested that it had to be adumbrated from the penumbras of other specifications in the Bill of Rights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O._Douglas Ed Kent]


In the Fight Over Piracy, a Rare Stand for Privacy
By ADAM LIPTAK
The record industry got a surprise when it subpoenaed the
University of Oregon in September, asking it to identify 17
students who had made available songs on a file-sharing
network.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/us/31bar.html?th&emc=th
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