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Piling onto your post because of recent bad experiences: Did you know that literally anyone can email Comcast and complain about alleged DMCA violations on you
by hansvm 6y ago
Piling onto your post because of recent bad experiences:
Did you know that literally anyone can email Comcast and complain about alleged DMCA violations on your residential internet? Comcast has no mechanism for submitting a counter-notice, and if you get too many such complaints they will ban you for up to 6 months. It's shocking that an ISP can be so bad that they're the impetus for moving all by themselves.
In your case though, if you're interested you might be able to get a lawyer involved? Lying is generally legal, but they might have some civil liability for fraud or something. It probably wouldn't be profitable for you, but if you won it might make you feel better.
- jessaustin 6y agoMaybe the best way to cancel service is to spam them with a bunch of DMCA complaints about yourself?
- Leherenn 6y agoI thought about it, but honestly it took a lot of time and energy out of me already, I just don't want to deal with them again. I just won't ever do business with them again, and I tell my story from time to time to people that ask my opinion about ISPs. I'm not even sure I have a case, I looked a bit online and as you said, lying is not illegal even if in cases like this that doesn't sit very well with me. In your case, isn't having a counter notice mechanism a requirement? I guess you could have sued them as well for that? But I understand, I don't want to have to sue every company I do business with, that's not a healthy environment even though it probably would be better for everyone in the long run.