Brain scores Dutch user name
p2pnet.net News:- Brain, an entertainment cartel anti-p2p unit, is crowing that a Dutch ISP, a subsidiary of a US company, will hand over the name and address of a user.
“Ronald van der Aart of UPC, the Netherlands` second-largest broadband ISP with 500,000 subscribers, said the company decided not to appeal a summary judgment by Amsterdam`s District Court in a suit brought by the Brain Institute,” says the Associated Press, which has a Brain spokesman saying it’ll now contact the UPC customer and would, “likely sue if a settlement isn`t reached first”.
‘Settlement’ is cartel-speak for extortion.
Brain is, “funded by the U.S.-based Motion Picture Association [read MPAA] and Recording Industry Association of America,” along with their international and Dutch counterparts, says AP.
The ‘Dutch counterparts’ are, of course, MPAA and RIAA extensions.
But a story openly saying the US-based RIAA and MPAA have pressured a Dutch company, that’s a subsidiary of Colorado-based Liberty Media Corp, to hand over personal and private information about a customer?
Interesting.
Meanwhile, “Previous attempts by Brain to force Dutch Internet providers to give up names of clients suspected of illegal file-sharing had foundered on technicalities,” says the story, continuing:
“Brain and the organizations it represents say have often been powerless to sue for copyright infringement because they only have numeric Internet Protocol addresses assigned by companies like UPC, not the actual identities.
“UPC argued it cannot be certain which of its clients used a given IP address at any given moment. But in the current case, Brain had gotten a court order to seize the servers of a now-defunct file-sharing network called ‘Dikke Donder,’ which used BitTorrent file-sharing software.”
Dikke Donder servers held records of network members’ IP and e-mail addresses, several of which were issued by UPC, “including one to a user called ‘muzan’,” says AP.
“Liberty Media Corporation is a holding company owning interests in a broad range of electronic retailing, media, communications and entertainment businesses,” it says on its site, adding:
“Our businesses include some of the world’s most recognized and respected brands and companies, including QVC, Encore, Starz, IAC/InterActiveCorp, and News Corporation.”
Also See:
Associated Press – ISP releases name in file-sharing case, August 31, 2006
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September 1st, 2006 at 6:29 pm
If youd read the court judgment here, youd know that this isn’t the normal ‘we found someone sharing a few files on Kazaa give us some money or we’ll take you to court’. the guy they are going after was one of the biggest uppers on one of the biggest dutch private trackers. so we’re talking lots and lots of 0day stuff here spread to hardcore downloaders. this isnt some single mother whose daughter had a sleepover and oh no, one of her friends might have done it whine.
September 1st, 2006 at 6:31 pm
oh yeah and its brein, not brain. its an acronym.
September 1st, 2006 at 6:38 pm
so? who it was isnt the point. the point is if the isp can do it for this person it can do it for others and its also opening the door for more crap like this.
and wgaf if its brain or brain? we all know who it is.
nice shill try but no banana
September 5th, 2006 at 7:24 am
The above spam is the reason we are having to use validation strings. Don’t be a fool and reward the above idiot by clicking on anything. He has at least been down graded to making one post at a time rather than being able to spam the whole site. Thank heavens for small blessings in that he can’t.