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Internet provider Grande Communications is requesting assistance from U.S. Marshals to serve piracy tracking company IP-Echelon. As part of the RIAA lawsuit, the ISP wants to find out more about a scam where IP-Echelon's name was abused by scammers to extract payments. Thus far, however, it has been unable to reach the company at its Hollywood office.
They used the name of piracy-tracking firm IP-Echelon and several major copyright holders, including HBO, to demand settlements for allegedly pirated content.
The DMCA scam was pretty convincing. The emails lacked IP-Echelon’s PGP signature but were good enough to fool some Internet providers into forwarding them. If anything, it revealed that these type of notices should be carefully vetted.
While we haven’t seen any reports of these fraudulent notices since, Internet provider Grande Communications has taken an interest in the matter, in preparation for its piracy liability case against the RIAA.
This case relies on DMCA notices sent by IP-Echelon competitor Rightscorp. The ISP is therefore eager to hear out IP-Echelon to find out more about the issue, noting that they received the scam emails as well.
“Grande has also received IP-Echelon infringement notices, which include both authenticated, PGP-signed infringement notices from IP-Echelon, as well as fake, non-PGP-signed notices which falsely claim to be from IP-Echelon,” Grande informed the court late last week.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/isp-wants-us-marshals-to-help-serve-piracy-tracking-outfit-180528/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @07:33PM (3 children)
Like water sewage and roads, the ISP must be considered and built as a public utility, the pipe to be fattened as needed. No routers, only switches should be permitted outside the private LAN. Unlike water, sewage and roads, content is nobody's business. Bandwidth can still be priced normally, without discrimination, so that is a non-issue The ISP is the only thing that can enforce the government's restrictions. This is their ultimate purpose. You would notice this if you paid attention to how the rules are piling up, and who the government goes to when they want something blocked or tracked. They have too much power. They must be removed from the picture entirely. The whole 'tragedy' is their creation. Without the ISP, the government cannot block Telegram or the google play store and other geoblocking 'features', nor can it log your communications. Without the ISP, we might finally be able to defeat the tragedy of copyright. The ISP is the tragedy, a monopoly that must be destroyed by whatever means necessary. I don't understand why you are such an apologist for them. This is is one reason that only technology can save us from this most egregious social problem that nobody, including you apparently, wants to even acknowledge. The whole argument is such a stupid waste of time and energy, when we could be developing the tech to circumvent the tyrants instead.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by isostatic on Saturday June 02 2018, @09:05PM (2 children)
Do you know how a network works?
"No routers, only switches should be permitted outside the private LAN"
P.s. I've just installed a 100mbit "dumb pipe" from a hotel in Singapore to London (it's actually provisioned via MPLS or something, but the presentation is >1500 byte ethernet at each end). Costing me £2k for the month. I already have my own router in docklands to land it on, and will have the one at the singapore end installed this week. Doesn't help me access telegram or google play or whatever, to do that I need to have a peering arrangement with the network those servers run on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @10:40PM (1 child)
On a dumb pipe everyone is a 'server'.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday June 05 2018, @12:48PM
What are you on about? A "dumb pipe" could refer to anything from dark-fibre to perhaps a layer 2 ethernet circuit.