> As in, MediaSentry doesn't want Tor to exist (for obvious reasons), so > it DMCA-DoS's new exit nodes? >
No, they pick on everyone pretty much equally .. easy to do when you're just using a script to scrape a tracker and complain. I've investigated many of the complaints over the years, and have yet to find any evidence that that Mediasentry (et.al.) makes any effort to download or verify that the client they are complaining about is in fact, offering the content in question. This was most hilariously demonstrated by Washington University when they spoofed a bunch of printers and got DMCA notices for them(*). (*): http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/ Also, as I've mentioned previously, it's not at all unusual to get complaints for IP addresses (within our block) that have never been used. I get the impression that folks (probably the media companies themselves) are intentionally injecting fake information into BitTorrent like they used to do with Napster .. except that BitTorrent handles this much better. The fallout from that is companies get a bunch of bogus complaints. My 0.02. Cheers, Michael Holstein Cleveland State University *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
