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MPAA Goes After Its Customers

Posted by michael on from the please-stop-advertising-for-us-kthx dept.

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.'"

6 of 431 comments (clear)

  1. I feel validated by Borealis · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't remember how many times I've said or thought "without the fucking customer, my life would be so much easier". I'm so glad to see somebody finally decided to just say "screw them" to all their customers and live the easy life.

    I wonder if the MPAA is hiring...

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    Unbreakable toys can be used to break other toys.
  2. Oh no... by Null_Packet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Watch out if you are on 192.168.x.x networks! They'll be coming for you next!

  3. Re:Invasion of Privacy by DEBEDb · · Score: 3, Funny

    > YOU ARE PIRATING ILLEGAL COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL

    Ah, so all these copyrighted recordings
    are illegal to begin with? Well, then,
    pirating them is the least we could do...

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    Considered harmful.
  4. Re:False Positives by Sir+Homer · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's because Muslims are too busy destroying things.

  5. Phew! by vena · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's a god damn good thing i'm a leech and never share anything!

  6. Finally! by batquux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we can have all sorts of fun with the MPAA. Since my gnutella client is open source, I can modify it to pick up on the MPAA's snooping, and send a note to all the other guys out there to start pinging that IP address. But why stop there? Send it dummy information or write a program that sits around on the gnutella network pretending to have copyrighted stuff (speaking of false positives). The possibilities are endless...

    --batquux--