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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.'"

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  1. Re:Police Involvement. by NeoSkandranon · · Score: 0, Troll

    So by your logic, anyone that downloaded anything from you on dialup would be breaking the law. Bzzt, wrong.

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