Anti-Piracy Firm Rightscorp Will Hijack Pirates' Browsers Until a Fine is Paid (torrentfreak.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Anti-piracy firm Rightscorp says that it's working on a next-generation technology called Scalable Copyright, under which it plans to extract cash settlements from suspected Internet pirates. The company says its new technology will lock users' browsers and prevent Internet access until they pay a fine. (Sounds familiar?) To encourage ISPs to play along, Rightscorp says the system could help to limit their copyright liability. For those unaware, Rightscorp works with copyright owners such as movie studios, music labels, and game developers, and tracks the IP addresses of people who are torrenting copyright infringing material. Sadly, the company's previous tactics haven't worked so well. The company doesn't have many clients, and it posted a net loss of $3.43m in 2015, up from the $2.85m net loss recorded in 2014.

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Website not working

[bizitch]

I want to check out their website http://www.rightscorp.com/ and it's not loading.

I keep clicking refresh over and over and over and its still not loading .....

Hmmmmmm I wonder why?

Re:Website not working

[Scarred Intellect]

From their FAQs:

...Most internet service provider contracts state that the contract holder is responsible for actions taken on their internet service.

What is an IP Address?

Every machine on the Internet has a unique identifying number, called an IP Address.

What is[sic] the IP Address shown does not match the IP Address on the notice?

Occasionally, your ISP may change the IP Address that your computer uses. Your ISP has verified that at the time your computer was used for copyright infringement, it was using the IP Address stated in the notice.

Sounds legit to me!

Pirates stealing from pirates

[JoeyRox]

There's no honor among thieves.

Re: If ever a company and its people deserved to d

[wierd_w]

Your argument it twisted beyond all reason.

While true that the GPL makes use of copyright law to have power behind it, the purpose of the license is to be a bullwark against the kind of madness that Rightscorp and pals are up to.

Also, with software the potential to completely rebrand the code under a completely new name and claim it as new and proprietary exists. THAT is what the GPL is out to stop. Not small scale redistribution. Last I checked, music pirates arent out taking EG, Madonna's album backlog and reselling them wholesale under a fake artists name and claiming them as original works. The closest you are going to find in that vein is the "club mix" scene. The club mixers are a tiny minority of "music pirates" though, and NOT who rightscorp and their ilk are targeting here.

Like most copyright shills you fail to see the forest for the trees.

The GPL exists because of copyright bullshit, for the purposes of preventing software freedoms from being trampled on.

Without copyright bullshit, there would be no need for it, and free software makers would use BSD license instead.

Re:ILLEGAL

[Anne Thwacks]

it's time to replace people in Government.

With Trump?

I think sexbots would be a better choice, but I a not a US voter.

Re: If ever a company and its people deserved to

[Anonymous Coward]

I keep trying, but every time I microwave a DVD it catches fire.