MediaSentry phuks up in Canada
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Ex-RIAA private ‘investigator,’ MediaSentry, bought by SafeNet for cash and stock worth $20 million in 2005, this year fired by the Big 4 extortion unit and then sold to rival MediaDefender at flea-market rates of $136,000 in cash and a promise of another $800,000, turned up in Australia where it was responsible having a student thrown out of his school dormitory.
Now it’s operating in Canada.
Does anyone know if it’s licensed here?
A ‘foreign corporation’
ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) is apparently ignoring the fact a foreign corporation, MediaSentry, instructed via email an Australian educational institution to terminate an Australian contract between the user of a service and the service provider, wrote Australian economist and p2pnet contributor Tom Koltai in May, going on:
“Not only does MediaSentry not have a registration in Australian as a foreign corporation, it has not, to the best of my knowledge, been given exemption by ASIC to operate in any capacity within Australia, especially in the capacity of a legal investigator.”
Named as MediaSentry ‘enforcement coordinator’ was one A. Kempe.
Now, “I wanted to give you a heads-up that MediaSentry (yes the very same discredited a**holes!) are still up to their old tricks here in Canada — Ontario at least!” – says a p2pnet reader, including a copy of an email s/he received yesterday.
Under the name of Rogers Cable, and with Apple iTunes included, it goes »»»
Rogers Cable (Rogers) has received a notice stating that activities associated with your IP address are infringing copyright in material(s) owned or exclusively licensed by others.
The full notice is appended to this e-mail below.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Rogers Cable Inc.
RE: Unauthorized Distribution of the Copyrighted Published Work Entitled The Tales of Beedle The Bard (Document)
Dear Rogers High-Speed Internet:
On behalf of the rights holder for the content listed below, we are writing this letter to state that we have a good faith belief that the unauthorized sharing (distribution) and downloading of this content has occurred by an individual making use of the IP address below at the date and time referenced at the end of this notice.
The Tales of Beedle The Bard (Document)
We also state, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notice is accurate and that we are authorized to act on behalf of the rights owner. Since you own this IP address, we request that you inform the individual who engaged in this conduct of the following:
Unauthorized file sharing is illegal. However, we truly appreciate your interest in The Tales of Beedle The Bard (Document). We are making every attempt to provide this wonderful content to you in a host of legitimate ways, one of which is through the following website:
http://www.apple.com/itunes
If you believe you have received this notice in error, please contact us at CLCopyright@mediasentry.com, and kindly include this identification number xxxxxxxxx, also noted above, in the subject line.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Respectfully,
A Kempe
MediaSentry Operations
——————————
INFRINGEMENT DETAIL
——————–
Infringing Work: The Tales of Beedle The Bard (Document)
First Found: 1 Jul 2009 00:49:28 EDT (GMT -0400)
Last Found: 1 Jul 2009 00:49:28 EDT (GMT -0400)
IP Address: xxxxxxxx
IP Port: xxxxxx
Protocol: BitTorrent
Torrent InfoHash: 4CBDECB81685C5FCD96B5C3B8B8B76970EEFD120
Containing file(s):
young-adult fiction.torrent (409,735,327 bytes)
—-PTCP_67a2bb9903259307d9
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable
=EF=BB=BFWednesday, July 01, 2009
“I wouldn’t touch the kind of trash they are accusing me of downloading with a ten-foot pole, so this would be funny — except for the false accusation part and having Rogers threaten to cut off my internet,” says the p2pnet reader, adding:
“Maybe a few of your readers would like to send MediaSentry a few choice words. God knows I just might …”
Stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
July, 2009
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July 2nd, 2009 at 3:55 pm
So if its not true then they are committing perjury (they said so).
So why not fight it and slam them with perjury, if you can?
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:00 pm
IP ≠ Person
spaghetti theory at work…
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
” So why not fight it and slam them with perjury, if you can? ”
They have money, most of us don’t.
That’s the biggest problem for those they extort.
They know it.
Who can afford to fight ‘Guilty Once Accused’ ?
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I have received a one of these from rogers, except it wasn’t media sentry claiming infringement. Over 3 years ago some rep from the ESA on behalf of sony sent me one of these claiming I was making available some psp game that ive never had in my possession let alone seen.
Do what I did.. print it off, save it for when your stomachs feeling upset (diarrhea) and use it for a good wipe. Yes thats what I think of you and your false claims Sony. Another note to the user, Rogers wont touch your connection (besides throttling it 24/7). Do not reply, don’t acknowledge its existence and carry on. My neighbor gets these monthly his connection is wide open as hes renting out his house to 2 other families. Nothing will happen and as stated above MediaSentry (and their new overlords) are a joke.