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Why would you dispute someone sending you an educational letter? To tell you about struggling artists and starving music A&R men? What are you, some kind of com
by Nexxxeh 12y ago
Why would you dispute someone sending you an educational letter? To tell you about struggling artists and starving music A&R men? What are you, some kind of communist? /s
Besides, you can always just ring up or email your ISP with "I dispute your assertion/implication I was illegally downloading or uploading copyrighted content."
I'm not sure if the courts would force an ISP to release the information if going after the account holder would be in breach of a prior arrangement. Besides, pretty sure it has been shown that an IP doesn't identify an individual.
The other thing is that the information isn't centralised, which means someone could just hop from ISP to ISP, never hitting the 4 letter a year limit. If you port using a MAC code, there's very minimal downtime when you switch.
It would seem to me like the ISPs have acted in their interests and the interests of their customers by heading off legislation but still not evening showing teeth, let alone using them.
Edit: replacing typo's and autocorrect mistakes.
- anon4 12y agoAlso - free paper to doodle on!