Originally Posted by Quentin

There's a small problem with your theory of how he came upon the data to support his assertion.

In the torrent freak article, it says Merrill profiled Limewire users "during his stint at EMI."

Merrill was forced out his job by EMI in March of 2009. EMI sued Limewire in June of 2010. Discovery in that case would not have started for several months thereafter.

So... did EMI give Merrill access to the data obtained through discovery in their lawsuit after he was fired, or do you think he came up with the data to support his assertions through some other means? I suspect the latter is the case, myself.

EMI was not a party in the RIAA suit against Limewire that kicked up in 2009, btw, so you can forget about them having obtained the relevant data that way, too.

I'm not saying he's wrong in his conclusion, btw (I would not be at all surprised if it were true). I'm just saying that he could not have obtained the data in question the way you think he did.