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What should I do with this notice?
04-17-2014, 09:13 PM
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The ISPs are currently involved in a program that identifies "torrents" being used for copyright infringement. They don't really care, they're not liable for anything you do and they don't own any of the rights you're violating. But the program is apparently somehow "rewarding" for ISPs that cooperate with the copyright owners.

Yes, viewing unauthorized videos or music on YT is also a copyright infringement, since you cannot possibly make a lawful copy of something that was illegally uploaded in the first place. It's hard to tell which videos are authorized and which are not, which is one reason YT is only required to disable distribution of violations when notified by the copyright owners.

As for what your "provider knows", they really don't care, as I mentioned. The copyright owners would probably already have all the evidence they need to file a federal lawsuit, if not also federal criminal complaints, and they would seize your computer and any storage media you own, to use as evidence.

Ask the Minnesota housewife sued for "sharing" 24 copyrighted songs. One P2P recipient logged her IP address and forwarded the illegal copies to the record companies. She went to trial (three times) and was found liable, even though she had actually swapped out her hard drive after having been warned that she had been caught. Jury didn't care. One jury found her liable for $80,000 per song. Judge "adjusted" the verdict.
Capitol (Records) v. Thomas. Eventually cost her $222,000 in damages, not including legal fees, which were apparently donated by someone.

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What should I do with this notice? - Greg - 04-17-2014, 08:58 PM
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