Mel Beckman wrote:
The plaintiff’s won a default judgement, because the defendants didn’t show up in court. But they could not have shown up in court, because they were only listed as "John Does" in the lawsuit. Thus no defendant could have "actual knowledge" that they were sued,
As the defendants are those identified as "d/b/a Israel.tv, as the owners and operators of the website, service and/or applications (the “Website”) located at or linking to the domain www.Israel.TV;", you are simply wrong.
For the court to then approve sanctions against innocent non-parties to the suit is a logical contradiction.
Wrong. Those knowingly actively cooperating with the defendants are not innocent at all though DMCA makes some passive cooperation innocent. Masataka Ohta