RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT DMCA letters like CEG-TEK but with teeth.
RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT appears to be CEG-TEK but with a desire to sue ISP subscribers who receive DMCA notices but choose to ignore them.
RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT appears to be CEG-TEK but with a desire to sue ISP subscribers who receive DMCA notices but choose to ignore them.
3/16/16 UPDATE: I have heard that CEG-TEK has retained an attorney who is filing the Dallas Buyers Club / Voltage Pictures IP address-based lawsuits in Canada to sue on behalf of their clients (it appears it may be James Zibarras). Apparently they are doing it as a proof-of-concept to teach that Canada’s limited statutory damages ($5,000 CAN … Read more
How time limits and purged records stop a copyright holder from learning the identity of an accused downloader. It occurred to me that there is some confusion as to what is an ISP retention policy a.k.a. an “IP address retention policy.” the effect the amount of time ISPs keep IP address logs (linking a particular … Read more
An increase in the number of internet users receiving DMCA settlement demand letters is concerning, especially with a growing list of ISPs working with CEG-TEK.
The first rule of Usenet is “you do not speak about usenet.” While writing something like this can upset those I would not want to upset, there is a bigger problem — what happens when the Usenet service provider (or more accurately, newsgroup service provider) fingers you as the internet user who is accused of committing a … Read more