Hi，
I am not an US citizen and I don't live in US. But I am interested to
know how the case progress, because we have similar such cases in my
country. :P
But seriously, are they after the end-user or making the ISP responsible
for their end-user ?
while, I am not a lawyer, so what after they know who is using that
broadband connection for that IP. So, they have identified the 80yr old,
what next ? and what if i have a free-for-all wireless router in my
house which anyone can tap on, which i regularly switch off during
nighttime for energy saving reason. :)
On 5/11/11 1:28 AM, Deepak Jain 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/expendibleipaddre
sses.pdf
This will stop when a 80+ yr old is taken to court over a download her 8 year
old grandkid might have made when visiting for the weekend. The media will make
the case that technologists can't.
For examples, see the RIAA's attempts and more recently the criminal
investigations of child porn downloads from unsecured access points. From what
I understand (or wildly guess) is that ISPs with remote diagnostic capabilities
are being asked if their provided access point is secure or unsecure BEFORE
they serve their warrants to avoid further embarrassments. [It'll probably take
another 6 months and more goofs before they realize that customers are
perfectly capable of poorly installing their own access points behind ISP
provided gear].
The torrent stuff is fundamentally no different in that a single IP can and is
shared by lots of people as common practice and the transient nature of it
(e.g. airport access point, starbucks, etc) reasonably makes the lawyer's case
much, much harder.
There is a real theft/crime here in many cases, but whether there is actually
any value in prosecution of movie downloads will depend... but most likely, the
outcome will be iMovies or similar and the movie industry will shrink the way
the music industry has.
DJ
