CRIA has absolutely no software
p2pnet.net News:- A Canadian company based in Quebec and whose stated mission is to “Analyze and report on worldwide digital piracy” has come up with one or two interesting perspectives on the CRIA’s (Canadian Recording Industry Association) plan to sue Canadian file swappers.
Among other things, the company, Digital Intelligence Centre/IT Innovations & Concepts, alludes to the CRIA statement, “sophisticated Internet surveillance technology” will trace “high-volume music traders” , or that 29 of the providers’ clients are “pirates who have been openly and illegally distributing thousands of digital music files over public networks”.
Not true, it says.
Now read on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Open letter to the Canadian Federal Court, CRIA, and ISPs
Montreal, Feb. 18th 2004
1 – Quoting from various sources
The organization says Internet file swapping on sites like Kazaa have cost the Canadian industry $425 million since 2000 and led to layoffs of 20 per cent of the staff at music labels across the country.
Canadian Recording Industry Association has ABSOLUTELY no software nor automated tools to investigate the several millions of file swaps that occur every day in Canada. So it is almost not acceptable to retain the business leakage they announce to be the consequence of music piracy.
Pfohl said the 29 individuals being pursued each offer “in the high hundreds or thousands of songs,” mostly on the popular Kazaa filesharing network.
The FastTrack communication protocol (used onto Kazaa) is always encrypted. As of today, we have seen at least 6 different cryptographic algorithms. Could CRIA name those algorithms and explain how they infiltrate such networks? The concern is no less than the admissibility of the evidences hereby provided…
Telus, argued the telecommunications company should not have to hunt down alleged copyright violators for CRIA.
Almost true: The ISPs should not have to pay for the investigation and action processes. But: they have maid [sic] intensive usage of commercial arguments like ‘Unlimited Music download’ in order to sell their High Speed Internet kits to residential customers. That would be fair to collaborate in quickly identifying the way to re-educate people.
“The process is not as simple or as easy as the music industry suggests.”
WRONG: Canadian ISPs are particularly efficient in identifying spammers and throwing them out of their networks, arguing they do not respect the Acceptable Use Policy ? When someone writes to abuse@whatevercanadianisp.ca to report SPAM, he just provides the IP address of the spammer and Canadian ISPs know how to deal successfully with such information. Most of the time, they call you by telephone before disconnecting you in order to be sure this not a virus acting on your behalf from your infected computer.
Dynamic IP addresses are used by more than one customer, making it harder to identify who was on the Internet at a specific time.
Wrong: This is exactly the same kind of argument than the previous one with a technical approach to flood non technically skilled people like CRIA and the justice. Both ADSL and DOCSIS Cable operators use dynamic allocation (DHCP). The leases are generally renewed so that residential customers do not change their IP so often… Moreover, spammers rely on dynamic allocation too and ISPs identify them quickly.
Twenty-nine of the providers’ clients are “pirates who have been openly and illegally distributing thousands of digital music files over public networks”, say CRIA president Brian Robertson and association lawyer Richard Pfohl.
Unacceptable: The Recording Industry Associations will have to understand that only the Canadian justice could decide who is a pirate, a cyber criminal ? Unless CRIA provides confessions from Internet users, people they are talking about are just anonymous Canadians, not devil criminals.
May 24th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
What is the significance of receiving a message from telus such as the following….
We are writing to inform you that TELUS has received a complaint that alleges that your TELUS Internet Service account has been involved in copyright infringement. This complaint was traced back to your account based on the IP address used at the time of this activity.
Please note that TELUS has not provided any of your personal account information to the complainant. It is TELUS’ policy to disclose such information to a complainant only if ordered to do so by a court of law, which has not happened to date.
We do, however, want you to be aware that this complaint was received by us and offer you the following information that may be of help to you:
If you are unaware of this type of activity originating from your account, you may wish to inquire with others who have access to your account.
If you are using a dial-up account, change the account password to ensure that only authorized users have access to it.
You may also want to check your system for viruses, which may explain why this sort of activity is originating from your account.
If you are not aware of our Acceptable Use Policy, which strictly prohibits use of our Service to infringe the copyrights of others, you may review at http://www.mytelus.com/internet/nv/aup.do. Please be aware that violation of this policy could result in disconnection of your Service.
Below is an excerpt from the complaint that we received regarding your account. We include it in this notice in an effort to help you identify the activity that is in question.
Sincerely,
Pat, Internet Abuse Team Member
Consumer Customer Operations
TELUS Communications
Email: abuse@telus.com
http://www.telus.com/internetabuse – Internet Abuse FAQ http://www.mytelus.com/internet/policies/TISAA.do – TELUS Internet Services Account Agreement http://www.mytelus.com/internet/policies/display.do – Acceptable Use Policy
I’ve omitted the remainder of the details for anonymity purposes.