[ale] Comcast getting fed up

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Wed Jun 13 13:41:05 EDT 2012


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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