07-07-2011, 07:46 PM
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The other side of the story;
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[O]ne recent case serves as a good example. Last November, the large New York law firm of Foley & Lardner jumped into the P2P game, filing John Doe lawsuits on behalf of films like Anal Fanatic. A judge granted expedited discovery and subpoenas went out to ISPs?but the ISPs objected.
Comcast tried privately to negotiate a schedule, suggesting that the company could do 25 IP address lookups a month and for $95 apiece (a bargain given the $120 list price). The Foley & Lardner attorneys didn't agree. So Comcast, upset about the pressure it was under, sent one of its lawyers to intervene in the Anal Fanatic case. ...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...-subpoenas.ars
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Don't get me wrong I am not in favor of this infringement I just want to point out the futility of the lawsuits against individual users.
This is following the same pattern of the "drug wars" of the 1980s and 1990s and the same miserable failures. Want to slay the dragon? Cut of the head ... Close the infringing sites ... Anything less is just paying service to the problem with no real resolution.
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