[ale] Comcast getting fed up

[Jim Kinney]

<ducks and digs for IPv6 notes and frantically tries to pull both feet from
mouth/keyboard>

um. yeah. It should royally cause headaches for the RIAA/MPAA lawsuit gang.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 12:55 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > I'm wondering if the flood of lawsuits in this is related to the
> inevitable
> > IPv6 transition. Once that occurs, the ability to drop a suit based on IP
> > will be moot as IPv6 supports a version of dhcp that anonomizes
> > automatically. :-)
>
> It's not dhcp.  It's stateless autoconf and the privacy extensions.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 06/13/2012 11:47 AM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> The following link is to a story of Torrentfreak. Comcast is
> apparently
> > > >> beginning to refuse to obey RIAA/MPAA/etc. subpoenas and is
> challenging
> > > >> them as essentially extortion by the various plaintiffs.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > >
> http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-protests-shake-down-of-alleged-bittorrent-pirates-120612/
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Jay Lozier
> > > >> jslozier at gmail.com
> > > >
> > > > Boy, sometimes you have to hate them, other times you have to love
> them.
> > > >
> > > > ❧ Brian Mathis
> > > From what I have been reading, Verizon usually wins when they challenge
> > > the subpoenas. Also, some judges have ruled that the IP address does
> not
> > > mean the account holder is automatically the guilty party. One judge
> > > listed 6 reasons for his ruling thus indicating suing the account
> holder
> > > successfully would require more evidence of guilt than just matching an
> > > IP address to an account holder.
> > > >
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