Maybe they can use the Clinton marijuana-non-inhalation defense - I downloaded the movie but I didn't watch it! Ron Baklarz CISSP, CISA, CISM, NSA-IAM/IEM Chief Information Security Officer National Passenger Railroad Corporation 10 G Street, NE Office 6E606 Washington, DC 20002 BaklarR@Amtrak.com -----Original Message----- From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis@lewis.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:38 AM To: Marshall Eubanks Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: 23,000 IP addresses 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....
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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________