[50300] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Thomason)
Thu Jul 25 03:39:40 2002
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:34:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Thomason <james@divide.org>
To: Michael Smith <mksmith@noanet.net>
Cc: Adam Rothschild <asr@asr.org>, Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <B9645415.808F%mksmith@noanet.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> The Business Software Alliance appears to be using this technique to flush
> out people distributing their Members' software via Gnutella and others. I
> have received the obligatory nasty-gram advising me as the "owner" of an IP
> (not taking into account the IP has been allocated and then assigned to
> consecutive downstream providers) that I could be held liable for the
> actions of this particular user.
The BSA is definately scanning P2P networks for alleged copyright
infringements. I received several of a similar notice for my netblocks.
This earned the BSA a null-route (not that they would care).
Although this complaint was not for a system of our own, I do own both of
the software programs cited in the complaint. After receiving legal
threats, I wonder if I will give my $150 to Intuit next year, or a local
accountant.
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Where the infringing content was located:
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First Found: [Time First Seen]
Last Found: [Time Last Seen]
Network: Gnucleus
Repeat Offenses: [Number of Tiems Seen]
IP Address: [X.X.X.X]
Protocol: Gnutella
What was located as infringing content:
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Filename: turbotax premier 2001.zip (33,006kb)
Filename: quickbooks pro 2002 + key(1).zip (147,505kb)
John R. Wolfe
Manager of Investigations
Business Software Alliance
1150 18th St NW Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
URL: http://www.bsa.org
E-mail: copyright@bsa.org
1-888-667-4722
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Regards,
James Thomason
>
> Mike
>
