Opinion ID: 2010647
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Identity of John Doe

Text: John Doe used the website reporting form that is part of SIIA's Corporate Anti-Piracy program to provide information about Solers. Sources, like Doe, who report piracy by corporate software end-users to SIIA[,] may become eligible for financial payment under [this program.] Source reports are received by two SIIA employees who ... forward [them] to [the program's legal counsel] for [ ] review and a determination as to whether SIIA should pursue the report further. SIIA asserts that it has kept Doe's identity and the information that Doe provided about Solers confidential. SIIA has a long standing policy of keeping the identity of [its] sources anonymous (unless required by law to disclose the identity)[, and] ... maintaining] as confidential the information provided by its sources[.] Thus, when Solers asked SIIA to voluntarily disclose Doe's identity in May 2005, SIIA refused to do so. The only information SIIA has disclosed is that Doe is an individual who does not work or reside in the District of Columbia and did not choose to participate in SIIA's Reward Program and therefore was never asked to, and did not sign, the Terms and Conditions of the Corporate Anti-Piracy Report Program.