Questionable "Best Effort" Copyright Enforcement 123
pmdubs writes "Princeton University Professor Michael Freedman, creator of CoralCDN, discusses how he received around 100 pre-settlement letters in one month from various copyright agencies after invalid BitTorrent tracker requests were issued through CoralCDN's proxies. Interestingly, the participating agencies made no effort whatsoever to verify that the Coral nodes were actually running BitTorrent, which they weren't! He questions just how much effort agencies take to reduce false positives when it comes to DMCA notices. Considering the credence that network operators give to such notices (they'll often cut your service upon receipt), it would seem that the answer is 'not enough.'"
Re:First hand experience (Score:3, Funny)
The frightening thing is that someone old enough to go to Marquette still wants Britney Spears "music".
Re:The new way to shut ppl down who you don't like (Score:1, Funny)
Re:First hand experience (Score:1, Funny)
I had my RA assign me to a different dorm room, where the Internet was still connected. ITS never knew :)
Re:The new way to shut ppl down who you don't like (Score:3, Funny)
If you could get your printer DMCA'd for distributing Office Space, I would consider that poetry.