When is a bittorrent user “named and served”? QUESTIONS ASKED ON BEING NAMED AND SERVED: ANSWER:All of the proceedings that have been taking place with these copyright infringement cases have been in the pretrial stages while the defendant is still a John Doe represented merely by his accused IP address. Even after the internet service … Read more
UPDATE (2/2/2011): While it is generally not the policy of the blog author to update articles, I have been asked to update this article to keep the information up to date. Since writing this article, the hearing which was the subject of all the controversy has been posted on the PACER website and hopefully soon … Read more
[7/22/2011 UPDATE: As services such as PACER, RECAP The Law, and RFC Express have become widely available, tracking cases and viewing filings online have become available for everyone to do. Thus, I am no longer uploading case documents to the bittorrent networks.] It has been disturbing to me that a number of websites have been … Read more
Mark your calendars, December 6th is the date when the fate of many accused internet downloaders can change for the better or for the worse. So far, over sixteen thousand internet users have received letters from their internet service providers accusing them of illegally using the torrent peer-to-peer (p2p) / bittorrent protocol to download copyrighted … Read more