Notice of Action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

So my aunt got a few of these in her email today. By a few, I mean 23. This is just one of them. They all list different works that have been infringed upon. My aunt is 65 years old and can barely operate her iphone, let alone a computer. I think I need to go see her and check if her router is secured.

 

Interesting. Maybe someone's in her network, sounds like the most logical explanation. Except she shares torrent files while downloading cook books

 

I'll find out when I get over there.

 

"Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Subscriber:"

First flag for me, I would expect her full name if it was from her ISP

Like "Dear Paypal Customer, please log in here or your account will be locked"

URL = Phishing site

 

Lol, they still try and send those out? Pretty hilarious, honestly. There's not even any way to prove that the person at the other end of the IP is the one actually doing the infringement. It's unenforceable, but they try anyway to scare people. I remember when I got one like ten years ago from Sony Entertainment for downloading a PS1 ROM of Twisted Metal 4 from a torrent site. Really? The game had been off shelves for years even then. I had a good laugh over it.

 

I knew I'd seen that letter format somewhere before. Dug up this article from Torrentfreak, seems its a forwarded letter from a company that uses scare tactics to, well, extort money.

https://torrentfreak.com/comcast-kills-business-model-of-piracy-monitoring-and-settlement-firm-131206/

Besides, the US Federal court has already ruled that, an IP address does not prove online piracy.

US federal judge: IP address not enough to prove someone downloaded pirated movies

Big news: Judge rules that the copyright troll’s complaint does not meet pleading standards

 

I removed all relevant info and posted the tl;dr version. It's a legit email.

 

Reminds me of the road signs here:

The registered owner of the offending vehicle reported as littering just gets a nasty letter in the mail. Nothing beyond that ever happens because there is no way to prove the claims are legitimate nor who was driving.

 

Just a little update.

Whoever set up her router never put a password on it. I went though the logs and it looks like someone has been connecting to her wifi for almost 6 months. I fixed it and told her not to reply to Comcast about those letters because they can't prove anything.

 

And there goes another free wifi signal lost in the sea...

 

I guess you figure you can siphon gas if there is no lock on the tank or take a few apples off their tree eh? After all, they didn't secure it.