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on Friday February 21 2014, @10:45PM
from the A-leashed-hyena-is-still-a-hyena dept.
from the A-leashed-hyena-is-still-a-hyena dept.
dbot writes
"In the latest turn in an ongoing legal dispute, Canadian ISP TekSavvy has been ordered to hand over the IP addresses information of subscribers allegedly engaging in copyright infringement of Voltage Pictures works.
While it doesn't look like a great decision on the surface (an IP address does not uniquely identify an infringer), the court specifically said it wants to sign off on the wording of any contact notices issued by Voltage to prevent extortionary "Copyright Troll" messages. It will be interesting to see if this new decision scales."
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Fluffeh on Friday February 21 2014, @11:44PM
This is a company that makes lot of crap, and then goes after the folks who download them individually and sends them "settlement letters" which generally are just below the cost to mount a defense in court. They are quite well known [huffingtonpost.ca] for this. Perfect 10 is another company that is desperately exploring the law [wikipedia.org] looking to make a hefty windfall.