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11-21-2010 | #1 | |
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Bad News for Content Owners Suing Bit Torrent Downloaders...
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If other judges hearing these types of cases pick up and follow this ruling it will either (a) cause complaints to be filed in numerous jurisdictions or unfortunately might put an end to many of these lawsuits. From TorrentFreak.com... http://torrentfreak.com/sued-bittorr...&asid=03cabdde |
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11-21-2010 | #2 |
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Re: Bad News for Content Owners Suing Bit Torrent Downloaders...
I think the judge failed on this ruling, and will likely be overturned, for a very simple reason:
Because the ISPs do not provide the user information readily, there is no way for the people filing the lawsuits to know what jurisdiction to operate in. They are left to file in a jurisdiction where the ISP operates, hoping to be able to pry the information out of their hands and then be able to move forward with actual defendants, rather than does 1 - 10000. If this ruling stands, it would put a lot of force behind moves to limit section 230 and ISP privacy rules to allow for more direct access the defendants. Section 230 safe harbor rules were not intended to create a blind from while people could blatantly violate the law wholesale. As a side note, take what Torrent Freak posts with a grain of salt. They are so incredibly one sided that they tend to misrepresent the rulings.
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11-21-2010 | #3 | |
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And its not about filing where the ISP is. Its about the court having jurisdiction over the actual defendants, the downloaders. The ISPs are not defendants and therefore it doesnt matter where they are located in regards to the Judge's ruling. It matters where the defendants reside. These cases are probably going to have to be split up amongst many different US District Courts. You can serve anyone with SDT anywhere. |
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11-22-2010 | #4 |
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Re: Bad News for Content Owners Suing Bit Torrent Downloaders...
It comes back to the same problem. The ISPs will not provide user information without a court order, so the copyright holders are forced to create these "doe" lawsuits just to get the information. Without it, there is no way to determine the actual location of the illegal file traders. Catch 22?
If the ISPs were required to be prompt in their disclosure, and to do so without a full lawsuit being filed, it might work out. But this ruling effectively makes it a "cart before the horse" issue, where there is no way to know where to file. It would seem that the courts are making it very difficult for copyright holders to enforce their rights, which means new legislation to fix it.
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11-22-2010 | #6 |
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Re: Bad News for Content Owners Suing Bit Torrent Downloaders...
Legislation is the only way. That DMCA has got to go. Its pre internet reality. ISPs need to be held responsible and when that happens, all of this will go away with the stroke of a pen.....disclaimer...Russians etc.
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11-22-2010 | #7 | |
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Funny because if Time Warner's cable television service was being stolen they would have had LE all over the thieves. However when it's someone being ripped off they want to protect their customers. Which in a way is ironic because it is also killing their core business. Perhaps they have already given up on cable television.... |
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11-22-2010 | #8 |
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Re: Bad News for Content Owners Suing Bit Torrent Downloaders...
Yeah...that could be. It amazes me how crooks and thieves escape any kind of reasonable justice to become respectable. Its kind of like the Kennedy family.
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11-22-2010 | #9 |
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Re: Bad News for Content Owners Suing Bit Torrent Downloaders...
Everything comes with a cost...
If you want accountability by the ISPs that means passing legislation that will compel them to have additional logging and reporting readily available. Storage, databases and the personnel needed to service all of those requests all cost money. Think people feel strongly enough about the rights of content producers to see the cost of their internet access double or triple? And the major thieves will still find ways around it all and trading will continue. |
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Logging what a user does is not required. It is only required that they log when they are online on a given IP,which is something they do already.
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11-23-2010 | #12 |
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Re: Bad News for Content Owners Suing Bit Torrent Downloaders...
Sorry, but IPs cannot easily be spoofed for a download connection. They may break into someone's PC and set up a relay, but that is not spoofing. See, you provide an IP, and the machine sending the download sends the packets to that IP by route. You cannot easily get in the middle and steal the packets.
Outgoing is much easier, because you aren't looking for a reply or a return. But in order to download something, you have to provide a usable and real IP address as destination for the returning packets, or they go nowhere.
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Re: Bad News for Content Owners Suing Bit Torrent Downloaders...
I agree, HP...so a few innocents will get stuffed. Just like every day in a court of law. However, the greater good wins.
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