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Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

  • From: James Thomason
  • Date: Thu Jul 25 03:40:47 2002

> The Business Software Alliance appears to be using this technique to flush
> out people distributing their Members' software via Gnutella and others.  I
> have received the obligatory nasty-gram advising me as the "owner" of an IP
> (not taking into account the IP has been allocated and then assigned to
> consecutive downstream providers) that I could be held liable for the
> actions of this particular user.

The BSA is definately scanning P2P networks for alleged copyright
infringements. I received several of a similar notice for my netblocks.
This earned the BSA a null-route (not that they would care).

Although this complaint was not for a system of our own, I do own both of
the software programs cited in the complaint.  After receiving legal
threats, I wonder if I will give my $150 to Intuit next year, or a local
accountant.

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Where the infringing content was located:
 ------------------------------
 First Found: [Time First Seen]
 Last Found: [Time Last Seen]
 Network: Gnucleus
 Repeat Offenses: [Number of Tiems Seen]
 IP Address: [X.X.X.X]
 Protocol: Gnutella


 What was located as infringing content:
 ------------------------------
 Filename: turbotax premier 2001.zip (33,006kb)
 Filename: quickbooks pro 2002 + key(1).zip (147,505kb)
 John R. Wolfe
 Manager of Investigations
 Business Software Alliance
 1150 18th St NW Suite 700
 Washington, DC 20036
 URL: http://www.bsa.org
 E-mail: [email protected]
 1-888-667-4722

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Regards,
James Thomason

>
> Mike
>