Cox tries to get contributory infringement ruling in Sony lawsuit overturned.

It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    3 months ago

    I remember getting a scary letter because I was torrenting. I thought it so funny because I had to the only person in the world only torrenting freeaoftwarr and public domain works.

      • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        3 months ago

        They don’t give a shit about targeting accusations only towards people torrenting copyrighted stuff. Why would they? They have no consequences for being incorrect.

        They are doing this automatically. They just grab all the magnet links they can find and target any IP they connect to, regardless of the content.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          26·
          3 months ago

          They have no consequences for being incorrect.

          Which is why the DMCA shit is also bullshit.

          Multiple false claims should result in you being banned from making future claims.

          • person420@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            5·
            3 months ago

            That’s not how it would work for us. We’d receive a report from the MPAA/RIAA that showed the torrent they were downloading, the IP address involved, if they were seeding or leeching and an affidavit saying that all the information was correct to the best of their knowledge.

            The letter we sent basically was a notification that we received that letter (with a copy) and that if we received two more for the same IP (three in total) we would have to release their information to the reporting body and that they could be open to legal action. It also included some information on how to secure their network and check for viruses in case that was the cause.

            In my 15 years working there, we never once released information about a client. Because this was business accounts, most clients had multiple IPs (at least a /29) and would cycle what IPs they showed up as on the public Internet to keep them from getting multiple notices on the same IP. The music venue I mentioned had an entire /24.