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ISP TekSavvy Ordered to Hand-over Subscriber Info

posted by LaminatorX on Friday February 21 2014, @10:45PM   Printer-friendly
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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2014, @12:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2014, @12:03AM (#4614)

    While they do have a lot of crap, they also have "The Hurt Locker" and "Dallas Buyer's Club"

    Was that supposed to be a disagreement? I saw part of the Hurt Locker on TNT. Every time I caught it, the same thing was always happening—some guys were standing around while one guy dramatically pulled some cables that dramatically turned out to be nothing. Then a bunch of standing around. I just assumed it was a non-budget remake of Episode I.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by wjwlsn on Saturday February 22 2014, @12:22AM

    by wjwlsn (171) on Saturday February 22 2014, @12:22AM (#4623) Homepage Journal

    I didn't like "The Hurt Locker" either, but it won six Oscars, which seems to mean something to a lot of people... and "Dallas Buyer's Club" has been nominated for a few as well. By the standards that many people seem to apply, those two movies (and possibly others in Voltage's catalogue) are not complete crap and probably did make a lot of money.

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    • (Score: -1) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2014, @03:17AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2014, @03:17AM (#4664)

      it won six Oscars, which seems to mean something to a lot of people

      Yeah; the people who made it. The Academy Awards is a circlejerk. My balls won six Oscars but you don't hear them going on about it because they don't have their own TV network.