Ghostmaker used our newssubmit to tell us about an intresting article on PBS.org. In this article the CEO of BayTSP is interviewed. You will probably not know his company, but he might become your worst nightmare.
The job of his company is to find people on the internet who are sharing illegal information, both on websites and peer to peer filesharing networks. Altough the CEO doesn't like the current US digital laws (DCMA) and think it's need to be changed, his company is actively seeking for illegal activities. The last part of the interview is the most scary part for those sharing illegal movies on the internet.
"We have 100 percent coverage of peer-to-peer file sharing," Ishikawa claims. "If you are illegally sharing copyrighted materials, we know who you are." |
Then why aren't there more arrests? In part, this is because the intellectual property holder who is paying BayTSP gets to set its own comfort threshold for exactly how much file sharing is too much, and how BayTSP should deal with offenders. "Adobe only wants to send out cease and desist orders, while some movie studios want to put people in jail," Ishikawa says. "There are people on the Net offering 50,000 to 60,000 files at a time for sharing. These people will get busted for sure."
For lesser offenders, under the DMCA an intellectual property holder can make your ISP remove the offending content from its servers. So while you may not go to jail, you might find that your Gnutella songs are no longer available. Repeat offenders lose their accounts completely. One issue is how quickly ISPs remove the offending material. "Sony wants it gone in an hour, but Uunet takes two weeks," says Ishikawa.
According to Ishikawa, we'll see major arrests in October of people who have been illegally (and flagrantly) sharing movies. With the evidence already gathered, the game is afoot, meaning this week is too late to stop sharing those movies and expect to get away with it. This might be a good time to get a lawyer.
Also intresting to see what certain companies ask from this internet bounty hunter. Some companies only want the content to be removed, others want to prosecute. For more information, read the entire article
here. It's an intresting read.
Source: PBS.org
