Re: 23,000 IP addresses

["Leigh Porter" <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com>]

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" <jlewis () 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?
>
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