Comcast torrent download warning

To get into one of these sites, a member must invite you to register, so you literally need to know a guy. By focusing primarily on torrenting, the MPAA and RIAA are only monitoring a fraction of the file-sharing sources that Internet users utilize, which leaves a slew of other options wide open. The ever-growing Freenet project , which offers users the ability to share files, chat and browse anonymously, is another good alternative to BitTorrent and currently has around two million users.

Streaming portals such as Hulu, Veoh and even YouTube offer full video streams of television and movies. And then, of course, there are the digital storage lockers such as MediaFire , YouSendIt and RapidShare , which allow users to simply upload and distribute large files without being tracked.

Search for: Search. I'm a scraper This search result is here to prevent scraping. You can do this. Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! The standard procedure upon receiving a fake DMCA infringement notice—such as a notice claiming you don't have the right to download Ubuntu—is to file a DMCA counter-notice. Comcast outlines the procedure in its DMCA policy :.

If a user receives a DMCA notification of alleged infringement and believes in good faith that the allegedly infringing works have been removed or blocked by mistake or misidentification, then that user may send us a counter notification. When we receive a counter notification that satisfies the requirements of the DMCA, we will provide a copy of it to the person who sent the original infringement notification Copyright Act. This sounds pretty straightforward—but there's a catch.

Section g 3 states that a valid DMCA counter-notification must include the subscriber's name, address, and telephone number. Up until this point, the ISP's customer is shielded from the copyright claimant; all the claimant has is the subscriber's IP address, which is insufficient information for the claimant to file suit against the subscriber.

Filing the counter-notice, unfortunately, means identifying yourself to the claimant in full. A particularly wily and unscrupulous third-party copyright enforcement agency could theoretically use a fake DMCA infringement warning as a sort of Trojan horse—getting the subscriber's legal identity via the obviously bogus warning and then using it for litigation regarding an unrelated swarm that the same subscriber had also been part of.

You must login or create an account to comment. Skip to main content. Jim Salter. Further Reading What all the stuff in email headers means—and how to sniff out spoofing. AdeptFelix wrote:. So the real headline here is that Comcast doesn't bother to validate that a DMCA request even came from a real source, let alone the validity of the claim. Even more alarming, considering the self-identification in filing a counter claim, Comcast is effectively assisting bad actors to gain access to customer information.