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posted by janrinok on Saturday June 02 2018, @04:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the concentrating-on-the-serious-crimes dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow8093

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/


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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday June 03 2018, @05:10PM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday June 03 2018, @05:10PM (#688060) Journal

    We absolutely do need dumb pipes. You pay for the Internet connection, and they don't police what you do with it.

    We do need dumb pipes, for some values of dumb.
    But not your values.

    I don't want to live in a world where you can do what ever the hell you want to my internet connection as long as you don't break any actual laws. Having to suffer your prying eyes and digital attacks until the legislature gets around to passing an actual law is idiotic.
    Trusting government to properly define what is illegal in the digital world could only be suggested by a fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last 20 years.

    You sir, are an idiot, and worse, you are a dangerous idiot. You clearly don't know how the internet works. Go outside and play in the street. Everyone will be safer.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @08:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @08:34PM (#688089)

    Nobody can do anything to your connection that you don't allow. I told you before, you alone are responsible for your own filtering. Nobody has any right to block what I wish to receive, regardless of offense taken. It is impossible to break any actual laws on the internet. And certainly nobody has any right to determine what is legal or illegal on any electronic/print medium. The attempt is confirmation of the absolute necessity of eliminating the ISP gatekeeper so we can put that stupid argument to rest once and for all. Yes, like the other AC said, they are in it for the money, and permission to operate. You already are trusting your government to define what is illegal in the digital world, through your ISP. Only their elimination can give us the dumb pipe on the WAN. This is not something to be put up for a vote. It is simply something that must be done regardless of public opinion. You are playing the fascist that pretends to 'protect' us from fascism.

    Of course, if you are willing to acknowledge that we are bald apes with no free will, then all bets are off. Survival of the fittest is still the way of the universe.