[140345] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 23,000 IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Radabaugh)
Tue May 10 09:56:37 2011
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 09:54:44 -0400
From: Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <94BA24FC-D987-4464-98C4-89978BF3CBF0@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 5/10/11 9:07 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> A Federal Judge has decided to let the "U.S. Copyright Group" subpoena ISPs over 23,000 alleged downloads of some
> Sylvester Stallone movie I have never heard of; subpoenas are expected to go out this week.
>
> I thought that there might be some interest in the list of these addresses :
>
> http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/05/expendibleipaddresses.pdf
>
> If you have IP addresses on this list, expect to receive papers shortly.
>
> Here is more of the backstory :
>
> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/biggest-bittorrent-case/
>
> This is turning into quite a legal racket (get order $ 3000 for sending a threatening letter); I expect to see a lot
> more of this until some sense returns to the legal system.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
>
A good reason why every ISP should have a published civil subpoena
compliance fee.
23,000 * $150 each should only cost them $3.45M to get the information.
Seems like that would take the profit out pretty quickly.
--
Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
mark@amplex.net 419.837.5015
