Comcast Threatens TorrentFreak For Posting Public Court Document 215
Despite being part of public court proceedings, Comcast sent a notice of infringement ordering Torrent Freak to stop hosting a letter linking a subscriber to Prenda Law. From the article: "Comcast has sent TorrentFreak a cease and desist letter, claiming copyright over contents of an article which revealed that Prenda Law was involved in operating a pirate honeypot. Failure to comply will result in a lawsuit in which the Internet provider will seek damages, a Comcast representative informs us. In addition, Comcast also alerted our hosting provider, who is now threatening to shut down our server."
fair use (Score:5, Interesting)
Of all things, court proceedings are one of the few exceptions to copyright law.
And if the lawyer who sent this notice doesn't know that, then someone at the bar association screwed up big time giving this guy a license to practice.
Re:Expropriate Comcast under a workers government! (Score:3, Interesting)
I would absolutely love to see this go to court. Please, oh please let this go to court. Let Comcast seek damages for your posting of public court documents.
The reality of your plagarized website (Score:5, Interesting)
Takedown laws do not exist so one of the unwashed masses (this means you ) can protect their content. They exist so big business can protect whatever the the intellectual property du jour is that they want to be protected.
I can assure you that nobody in the government or judicial system has any interest at all in protecting situations like your web content. Don't know how you missed the memo, but the laws are for the benefit of the rich and corporations. If you were one of those, you'd be protected.
Re:F Comcast (Score:4, Interesting)
Sorry, but we don''t *know* it wasn't an accident. We suspect that it wasn't. It may be a very strong suspicion, but that's not proof. A public appology would be a strong case that they regretted the action, but I can't think of anything that would count as proof that it was an accident.
OTOH, I don't even expect a public appology. And THAT'S not proof that it was intentional. Proof that it was intentional would require something like a note from a manager to the legal department, which isn't to be expected even if it happened.
At the moment you can reasonably decide either to believe them, or to consider them bare-fced liars (or both). The evidence isn't conclusive.