Ernesto van der Sar discusses a California piracy case where the defendant objected to Strike 3’s request for a copy of his hard drive and access to his cloud hosting accounts because the request would result in Strike 3 obtaining personal and private information such as family photos as well as attorney-client privileged communications.
In this case, the judge agreed with the defendant and rejected Strike 3’s proposed solutions.
Read about the issue on TorrentFreak. A copy of U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym’s order on Strike 3’s request to compel discovery responses is available on Torrent Freak, here (pdf).