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In what's believe to be a first of its kind ruling, a federal court in Oregon has dismissed a direct infringement complaint against an alleged movie pirate from the onset. According to the Judge, linking an IP-address to a pirated download is not enough to prove direct copyright infringement.
[...] To prove direct infringement copyright holders merely have to make it "plausible" that a defendant, Thomas Gonzales in this case, is indeed the copyright infringer.
For example, by pointing out that the IP-address is directly linked to the defendant's Internet connection. However, according to Judge Beckerman this is not enough.
"The only facts Plaintiff pleads in support of its allegation that Gonzales is the infringer, is that he is the subscriber of the IP address used to download or distribute the movie, and that he was sent notices of infringing activity to which he did not respond. That is not enough," she writes in her recommendation.
Source: TorrentFreak
(Score: 3, Insightful) by wisnoskij on Wednesday June 29 2016, @03:42AM
So the next time someone complains about copyright infringement the police are just going to have to knock down your door and take every device that has the ability to connect to the internet, for evidence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 29 2016, @06:50AM
Yes indeed, seizing every device for evidence is exactly what the FBI does.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 29 2016, @12:34PM
And your neighbors, since its probably the neighbor kid stealing your wifi