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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:12AM (#4653)

    I was bit confused by the summary because it omitted "to be". Quoted below the sentence in question with "to be" added in bold.

    ... the court specifically said it wants to sign off on the wording of any contact notices [to be] issued by Voltage ...

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