“Six strikes” group answers charges of IP industry bias with changes

“Six strikes” group answers charges of IP industry bias with changes:
Responding to criticisms that the Center for Copyright Information erred in its selection of a digital forensics firm chosen to evaluate its anti-piracy setup, the group behind “six strikes” now says it will choose a second entity.
Earlier this month, the CCI had chosen the company Stroz Friedberg to evaluate MarkMonitor, the software designed to see who’s downloading Game of Thrones episodes and Serbian-language techno remixes of Cory Doctorow’s latest Creative Commons tome.
Here’s the thing: TorrentFreak and others have pointed out that the New York-based, multimillion-dollar firm had previously been the RIAA’s lobbying firm from 2004 to 2009 to the tune of $637,000. One of the primary lobbyists on record was Beryl Howell, now a federal district court judge in Washington, DC.
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