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Originally Posted by PAR
Interesting...
I don't see this suddenly being more targeted then possibly an IP address,
and thus a shake down could be said to be correct.
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There are ways to better target infringers and we are working on developing them along with legal strategies to back them up.
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I have issue with sueing large groups of people in one claim, doing so has a history of being a little shady ...
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Multi-party lawsuits are not the problem, the problem is that at the moment too many very poorly targeted blanket actions are being run through the courts.
I have no tolerance for the anti piracy methods that involve suing thousands of people based on nothing more than an IP address, it's sloppy. There needs to be more identifying information on the offender gathered by litigants before they sue - however if properly targeted I see no problem with multi-party actions
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I do how ever see you not being able to step back and see that the "shake down" sentiment comes down to exactly what you said in the post before it..
"I do not believe that wide ranging poorly targeted actions help the anti piracy cause."
I guess you are so anti piracy that you are the only one able to have issue with some of the ways people are going about fighting it.
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My statement was self apparent, I clearly said that I do not believe that wide ranging poorly targeted actions help the anti piracy cause. However I have no issue with very well targeted multi-party actions.
Here's an example. A website is seized which has 1,000 members. Each member had paid for access. After forensic examination of all user data it is determined that 850 members had used an identifiable method of payment. 750 of those members was able to be identified by several data points contained within the user database of the website. A pattern of usage of each the 750 members was able to be verified.
Is it then wrong to sue the 750 identified members who downloaded infringing content ? I think not and this is an example of the types of cases that should be run, not the sloppy ill conceived cases currently making it before the courts.