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Re:Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. by olefoo on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @09:38PM (#920795)
The mechanism is wide open for abuse. If this regime comes to pass, I would expect different groups to be issuing bogus takedown notices against competitors...

Imagine if PETA activists started nailing the public IP's of meatpacking companies with allegations of copyright infringement...

or imagine that you're in the middle of a complex court fight and your law firm, and most of your lawyers home and mobile ips are shut down in a coordinated attack...

Re:Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. by derwiki on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @09:58PM (#920823)
I had a conversation similar to this topic with a friend this weekend, but about net neutrality. I contended that certain restrictions put on the internet would be so obtuse that there is no way they could be enforced -- this seems like one of them.

I'm not sure PETA would do that, because they're a legitimate organization that could have action taken against them. But that's an interesting point: if every IP address was reported, how do they enforce or verify it?

Personally, they can pry my internet from my cold dead hands.

Re:Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. by regularfry on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @05:09AM (#921422)
PETA may be a legitimate organisation, but the people involved may well have friends who perform actions which, while it is obviously impossible to condone them, your honour, do support their cause.
Re:Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. by dschobel on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @10:03PM (#920828)
Right but the take down notices would require that you own some IP to allege infringement upon and have the resources to actually produce a non-frivolous legal missive.

I really doubt this is going to be some grand populist legal tool.

Re:Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. by olefoo on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @11:18PM (#920986)
I think you missed the part where the takedown happens without the need to prove anything. And it's easy enough to gin up something. Also most activist groups generate a fair amount of media content. Content which is likely to be monitored by the people most likely to be in their sights.

And if someone mildly technically knowledgable gets involved you could really cause trouble. Imagine the havoc that could be wreaked by AT&T disconnecting Verizon. Or shutting down Dreamhost.

Instant disconnection on accusal is a recipe for stupid things.

Hell, someone would probably set up a linkbait news posting to a webpage that they claim is protected ip and have a script issue automatic disconnect requests to everyone who views the target page.

Re:Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. by danek on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @11:45PM (#921028)
Hell, someone would probably set up a linkbait news posting to a webpage that they claim is protected ip and have a script issue automatic disconnect requests to everyone who views the target page.

sounds like a good way to shut down supporters of XYZ cause

Re:Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. by regularfry on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @05:12AM (#921425)
> I think you missed the part where the takedown happens without the need to prove anything.

Or, in fact, come from the people it claims to come from.