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Following a high-profile order at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this summer, copyright holders are facing a roadblock in their quest to demand settlements from alleged file-sharers. Referencing the August order, federal courts in districts across the US are demanding more evidence than an IP-address alone.
[...] In recent weeks, however, more and more judges have begun to ask questions.
This started after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reached a verdict in Cobbler Nevada v. Gonzales. The Court ruled that identifying the registered subscriber of an IP-address by itself is not enough to argue that this person is also the infringer.
"Because multiple devices and individuals may be able to connect via an IP address, simply identifying the IP subscriber solves only part of the puzzle. A plaintiff must allege something more to create a reasonable inference that a subscriber is also an infringer," the verdict read.
[...] What's clear though is that the Appeals Court ruling is being used by courts across the country to demand "something more" than an IP-address alone.
While this is not the end of so-called "copyright trolling" practices just yet, it does make it harder for rightsholders to convince the courts.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/courts-want-something-more-than-an-ip-address-to-catch-pirates-181217/
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday December 21 2018, @07:19AM (1 child)
Sorry, you got to know a guy, and you don't know a guy :) That and the first rule of a private tracker is that you don't talk about the private tracker...
Look for some private trackers that occassionally open up membership. A lot of torrent blogs and similar sites talk about them, and every so often, some will open up for membership. Otherwise, the way it works is by invitation only. That also means the person doing the inviting is on the hook for the behavior of the invited.
Once you do get into a site, and past probation, it's a private tracker with literally hundreds of TB of porn titles at any one moment. They release just as much content in the porno group scenes as the gaming, software, tv, and movie scenes. Probably more.
Private tracker I am on is like TV title, software, big titty porn, freak porn, teen porn, software, porn, tv, movie, porn, porn, porn, tv. That was me summarizing the list in another tab :)
There are some porn only trackers too, and they'll often deal in whatever porn they can get their hands on.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @02:54PM
Oh those. Geez I haven't been on a private network for years. Not since DC was cool.
No problem. I know how to knock on this door.