MPAA Goes After Its Customers

EyesWideOpen writes "The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is issuing 'takedown' notices to ISP's to alert them that customers are using their internet service to transmit or post copyrighted movies. The ISP's in turn send a letter to the customers threatening to disable their internet connection unless the offending material is removed. The MPAA is using software that 'cruises file-swapping networks like Gnutella to find copyrighted materials, hunts down the IP address of the poster, then discovers which Internet service provider is being used.'"

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Invasion of Privacy

[Angram]

I'm getting tired of this. This is called invasion of privacy. If a police officer goes through your room and finds a bomb, without a warrant, he can't do anything with it, until he gets one from a judge. The evidence is inadmissable in court. Get a decent lawyer, and you'll go free undoubtedly.

If your ISP relays the message to you, ask who found it, them or the MPAA. Your ISP probably has the right to (they can check transfer logs, etc). If it was the MPAA, then you're losing your right to privacy, and you can sue your ISP and the MPAA. You didn't authorize their searching your computer, and your ISP shouldn't allow it either. Once again, they can't use the "evidence" if it's found like that.

This is why I'm leaving the US, the whole system is shit. MPAA, lack of government involvement with internet privacy, Constitutional rights that evaporate once you go digital (don't get me started on the pledge.


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