Comcast Threatens TorrentFreak For Posting Public Court Document

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."

Comments

Expropriate Comcast under a workers government!

[For a Free Internet]

The solution is COMMUNISM! Hail Leon Trotsky!

Where is Leonard J. Crabs when you need him?

[ReallyEvilCanine]

This shit isn't worthy of the label "news" or "current events" or even "docu-romcom-tainment-dramedy". The stupidity isn't even worthy of a mention on Something Awful let alone anyone getting involved.enough to respond with a "Bite me" picture of a hot dog.

Re:Dear Comcast, fuck off

[ClioCJS]

So now you own the cheat codes created by IDSoftware's developers? Sounds like you're also a douche. Facts aren't copyrightable.

Re:Dear Comcast, fuck off

[Digital Vomit]

Fifteen years ago I started a Quake gaming site that I stuffed with all kinds of good contents, which included a huge trove of single player cheats, console commands and server commands that I meticulously tested and explained. Those pages may have been the most plagairized works on the internet;

It sounds like you don't understand how the internet works. You can't put something out in public then complain when people share that information. Yeah, it sucks that some people do douchey things like try to take credit for other people's work, but you need to put this sense of entitlement you seem to have in check.

Information is like fire: anyone can just shove a stick in your fire and get their own fire once you've made your fire public, regardless of how hard it may have been to make that fire in the first place. Claiming ownership on fire it just silly.

Re:Dear Comcast, fuck off

[ClioCJS]

I could see that, but really, in the end, I don't know that people should really feel ownership over them explaining someone else's stuff.

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[alisha01]

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