http://gigaom.com/2012/05/11/verizon-stands-up-for-its-users-in-copyright-lawsuit/ Wed, 22 May 2013 04:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/05/11/verizon-stands-up-for-its-users-in-copyright-lawsuit/#comment-840862 Sat, 12 May 2012 21:26:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=520642#comment-840862 this is great. maybe one day this will be the norm.
yeah, @thomas if someone hacks into your wireless and downloads a bunch of crap it looks like you did it. then say the ISP uses an ip location tool like http://www.unlocktheinbox.com/locateip/ and find the physical location for that ip. its going to look like you did it, not the intruder. thankfully they are usually a neighbor or something and the police can get a warrent to do… whatever it is they do to catch pirates.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/05/11/verizon-stands-up-for-its-users-in-copyright-lawsuit/#comment-840754 Sat, 12 May 2012 04:29:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=520642#comment-840754 Verizon “stands up for its users?” The users in question are using BitTorrent technology to illegally distribute Wiley’s products all over the world for free. With a 5mbps broadband connection, a single computer can distribute 25,000 two megabyte .mobi files a day. A “For Dummies” kindle edition costs $9.99 and is two megabytes in size. That is a loss of $250,000 a day from one BitTorrent computer on a normal US broadband connection. Yes, the copyright owner is trying to get them to settle for a couple thousand dollars as a deterrent even though their actual damages are much higher. That is what courts are for, to help to stop people from damaging one another.

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