Re: HOB and DMCA

["Pace, Guy" <gpace () CIS CTC EDU>]

We have had similar notices from HBO over the last month or so. Most
have indicated activity more than 9 days and as long as 15 days old. My
responses haven't bounced, but I did tell them that chances of finding
anything of value from data that old was negligible. I have yet to see
anything like a reply to email or returned phone call from any of the
senders of these notices--not just from the HBO outfit. I wonder about
the validity of these notices ... enough so that I'm tempted to
recommend they be added to the spam filter.

Guy L. Pace, CISSP
Security Administrator
Center for Information Services (CIS)
3101 Northup Way, Suite 100
Bellevue, WA 98004
425-803-9724

gpace () cis ctc edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Bayn [mailto:Bob.Bayn () USU EDU] 
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:49 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] HOB and DMCA

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dick Jacobson <Dick.Jacobson () NDSU NODAK EDU>
>
> There is apparently discussion on the REN-ISAC list about invlaid DMCA

> notices from HBO.

I just reviewed our DMCA complaints.  We haven't been bothered by HBO
much at all, but just got a complaint recently.  It was sent 10 days
after the alleged infringement and implicated our proxy server for which
we don't keep logs that long.  The delivery headers of the complaint
didn't look suspicious, and my reply didn't bounce.

Bob
Utah State University