[p2p-research] Slashdot | Questionable "Best Effort" Copyright Enforcement

[Paul D. Fernhout]

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/08/2116205/Questionable-Best-Effort-Copyright-Enforcement
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"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.'
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--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/