…and the “landlord” would not be the “network manager who made an agreement with the named cartel”.

Again this sounds a little fishy.

Even the guy who made some machine to hack students cards in Ottawa was given his rights in writing by a committee who review it.

Not a lousy Network manager talking about “some agreement” he has with a cartel (let alone Sony themselves).

If any of this is true, I bet you get some good money when you sue them and sue the school for allowing some network manager to tell you to pack up and leave an educational institution.

Fishy.

Not accurate at all.

Also, give us more info on this “agreement they have with this school as a whole.

No network manager is responsible for tosses you out. It would have to fall under a committee of some sort involve the dean (top guy) and associates, including the schools ombudsman, who when also have to notify you of your legal rights.

Not underpaid Network Manager can call the shots on his own and toss you out.

This is getting fishy.

I would be very concerned if a landlord terminated a residential lease because of any unsubstantiated threats from a copyright owner.

Please contact me at nic@efa.org.au if you want to talk about this in any more detail.

Essentially, a landlord has little to no liability for your actions unless they ‘authorise’ (’sanction, approve, or countenance’) any infringements that take place, and even then, there are some fairly broad exceptions.

I would think that you would probably have some sort of recourse for wrongful termination of the lease in these circumstances.

You might also like to contact the Student Union of the University where you are currently studying and if it is QUT they will be DEFINATELY interested in this situation. Especially since the current Chair of the Electronic Frontiers Australia, Mr Nic Suzor (http://nic.suzor.com ~waves at Nic~) is a lecturer their too.

Whatever happens you do have absolute specific rights against these allegations that have been stated by both the “manager” and the letter writer themselves. First I would suggest getting a copy of the email as well as all relevant information of who has seen this email etc. If the manager balks at this idea remind them that tortuous action could be taken against them personally and you have under natural justice (procedural fairness) the ability to see all allegations.

Also if it is MediaSentry [could be dTecNet] , or actually any organisation that is not police -both state or federal – based) and they are stating they have this information due to intercepting some data stream they most likely have infringed the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979 [Commonwealth] which is a criminal offence. No non-governmental organisation has the ability (even govt orgs need a warrant issued by a criminal court) to intercept communications (including data) within Australia. This includes those that are situated outside of Australia as well.

I forwarded Jon the email my father received from the dorm manager with the emails the network manager received from mediasentry attached.

As I’ve already gotten kicked out and don’t see any chance of me being let back, even until the holidays, I was just writing to inquire about the seriousness of receiving one of these emails from Mediasentry. I have been doing some research on my own and discovered Mediasentry is not even licensed to act in some States in the US so I was merely wondering if they are licensed to do so outside of the US (Australia).

And

What would one do if they were living at home and received one of these emails themselves, Is it cause to show alarm or just a sort of warning. When I was called in the Manager tried to tell me he was contacted personally by Sony Pictures and a lawsuit was imminent if he did not “keep his agreement” with them and remove me from the dorm. How accurate is this?

thank you,
Breno Cavalheiro

Read this and tell me who is stealing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17327

There are a lot of pro MAFIAA comments because the MAFIAA is employing a lot of shills to post po MAFIAA garbage.

I think he should sue even if he did download the movie – the reaction to such a minor infraction is extreme and an abuse of power.

Now if he admitted to actually downloading Angels and Demons, he’s screwed.

Also, I was reading Slashdot coverage of this story, and while a year ago, most of the
readers there would come down on the side of the alleged “pirate”, lately, the pendulum
seems to have swung the other way and most of the replies there are pro-MAFIAA.

I wouldn’t be to fast to say that. They know how to play it well. You can bet some type of “economic sanction” will be involved this time around (this year). It came close last time. Be glad we have a minority gov and an election was called.

So far, that one hasn’t proven to be true at all!
That’s why the US has been launching its defamation campaigns at Canada through the USTR “watch lists”, etc. They EXPECTED Canada to just rewrite our law books to allow them to just continue their shit on our side of the border, but that hasn’t happened at all.

Canada is the one country they don’t quite know how to play.

But it does not change the issue which is that this guy is being thrown out of his dorm because of downloading and if that is not extreme, what is?

“I just have a hunch it wasn’t really MediaSentry. MediaSentry never locates actual downloads.

With your practical knowledge of MediaSentry, you would know.

It’d be interesting if they have set up in Oz, but perhaps they haven’t and I’ve added a note to that effect at the bottom of this post.

Cheers!

Terminating someone’s lease for copyright infringement is rather extreme; I think the
person who is being accused ought to sue the University if in fact he is found to be innocent
of downloading the movie in question.

Furthermore, given that the Pirate Bay’s torrent tracker is known to generate fake peers in
order to throw off companies like Media Sentry, there is a definite possibility that they’ve
flagged someone who is innocent.