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Comcast Threatens TorrentFreak For Posting Public Court Document

Posted by Unknown on from the cease-and-desist dept.

Despite being part of public court proceedings, Comcast sent a notice of infringement ordering Torrent Freak to stop hosting a letter linking a subscriber to Prenda Law. From the article: "Comcast has sent TorrentFreak a cease and desist letter, claiming copyright over contents of an article which revealed that Prenda Law was involved in operating a pirate honeypot. Failure to comply will result in a lawsuit in which the Internet provider will seek damages, a Comcast representative informs us. In addition, Comcast also alerted our hosting provider, who is now threatening to shut down our server."

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  1. fair use by shentino · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Of all things, court proceedings are one of the few exceptions to copyright law.

    And if the lawyer who sent this notice doesn't know that, then someone at the bar association screwed up big time giving this guy a license to practice.

  2. The reality of your plagarized website by Zontar_Thing_From_Ve · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am going to be the cold, hard dose of reality in your situation.

    Takedown laws do not exist so one of the unwashed masses (this means you ) can protect their content. They exist so big business can protect whatever the the intellectual property du jour is that they want to be protected.

    I can assure you that nobody in the government or judicial system has any interest at all in protecting situations like your web content. Don't know how you missed the memo, but the laws are for the benefit of the rich and corporations. If you were one of those, you'd be protected.