So are they basing this on you downloading it or on making it available for others?
Apologies for the top post... -- Leigh Porter On 10 May 2011, at 14:40, "Jon Lewis" <jle...@lewis.org> wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2011, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > >> A Federal Judge has decided to let the "U.S. Copyright Group" subpoena ISPs >> over 23,000 alleged downloads of some >> Sylvester Stallone movie I have never heard of; subpoenas are expected to go >> out this week. >> >> I thought that there might be some interest in the list of these addresses : >> >> http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/05/expendibleipaddresses.pdf > > It wasn't that good a movie, so I guess they need to squeeze every bit of $ > they can out of anyone who saw it. I bought it a a Blockbuster liquidation > sale (having not seen it previously). > >> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/biggest-bittorrent-case/ >> >> This is turning into quite a legal racket (get order $ 3000 for sending a >> threatening letter); I expect to see a lot >> more of this until some sense returns to the legal system. > > I wonder how things go if you challenge them in court. This is surely a > topic for another list, but it seems to me it'd be fairly difficult to prove > unless they downloaded part of the movie from your IP and verified that what > they got really was a part of the movie. If they're going after any IP that > connected to and downloaded from an agent of the studio (and thats what it > sounds like) who hosted the file, can they really expect to prosecute people > for downloading something they were giving away? > > Wouldn't that be like the RIAA making bootleg copies of audio CDs, giving > them away, and then prosecuting anyone who accepted one? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route > Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are > Atlantic Net | > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
