What are you doing about Six Strikes?

Mon Feb 25 20:23:59 UTC 2013

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:07:43 +0000, "Livingood, Jason" said:
> 
> > Other than a few IP mix ups years ago, is this still really an issue? It
> > seems ISPs have pretty reliable IP lease histories for many years to
> > support LEA requests and other needs...
> 
> The fact that the ISP has a good record of what customer had what IP
> address doesn't do much good if the agency hired to do the dirty work calls
> the ISP and gives it the wrong IP or timestamp in the the report...

And since the labels and their contractors are arguably Happy Enough if 
they reduce "pirating" by *scaring* everyone rather than actually hitting
the targets, they have little incentive to care, unless one is provided
to them, um, externally.

Cheers,
-- jra
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