Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-09 Thread Masataka Ohta
Philip Loenneker wrote: I have a tongue-in-cheek question... if the documentation provided by the plaintiff to the court, and/or the court documentation including the final ruling, includes the specific URLs to the websites to block, does that constitute transmitting links to illegal content?

RE: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-08 Thread Philip Loenneker
: Court orders for blocking of streaming services Mel Beckman wrote: You are confusing "illegal" and "guilty". The first party publicly transmitting illegal contents or links to the contents are guilty, which means the links themselves are illegal. But, DMCA makes some t

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-08 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mel Beckman wrote: You are confusing "illegal" and "guilty". The first party publicly transmitting illegal contents or links to the contents are guilty, which means the links themselves are illegal. But, DMCA makes some third party providers providing illegal contents or illegal links guilty

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-08 Thread Anne Mitchell
A point of order: > The plaintiff’s won a default judgement, because the defendants didn’t show > up in court. But they could not have shown up in court, because they were > only listed as “John Does” in the lawsuit. It's actually a lawsuit against "Does 1-10 DBA Isreal.tv", so the

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-08 Thread Mel Beckman
Masataka, You’re incorrect about the DMCA when you say “DMCA treats ‘linking’ to illegal contents as illegal as the contents themselves”. You must knowingly link to works that clearly infringe somebody’s copyright. A link to the Israel.TV websites themselves is not to a specific work, so it’s

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-08 Thread Anne Mitchell
First, I have NOT read this order, however: > As the order is to those "having actual knowledge of this Default > Judgment and Permanent Injunction Order This tells me all that I need to know in terms of the scope of it. A default judgement means that the defendant never responded. That

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-08 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mel Beckman wrote: But the phrase "or linking to the domain" Includes hundreds, possibly thousands, of unwitting certain parties: DMCA treats "linking" to illegal contents as illegal as the contents themselves, which is why I wrote: : In addition, it seems to me that name server operators

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-08 Thread Mel Beckman
Masataka, But the phrase “or linking to the domain” Includes hundreds, possibly thousands, of unwitting certain parties: anyone who operates search services, or permits people to post links in discussion groups, for example, would be included. I think I am simply right. The lawsuit is

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-08 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mel Beckman wrote: The plaintiff’s won a default judgement, because the defendants didn’t show up in court. But they could not have shown up in court, because they were only listed as "John Does" in the lawsuit. Thus no defendant could have "actual knowledge" that they were sued, As the

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-08 Thread Jim Popovitch via NANOG
On Sun, 2022-05-08 at 12:01 +, Mel Beckman wrote: > The plaintiff’s won a default judgement, because the defendants didn’t show > up in court. But they could not have shown up in court, because they were > only listed as “John Does” in the lawsuit. Thus no defendant could have > “actual

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-08 Thread Mel Beckman
The plaintiff’s won a default judgement, because the defendants didn’t show up in court. But they could not have shown up in court, because they were only listed as “John Does” in the lawsuit. Thus no defendant could have “actual knowledge” that they were sued, let alone be serviced with

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-08 Thread Masataka Ohta
John Levine wrote: I agree that the rest of the language demanding that every ISP, hosting provider, credit union, bank, and presumably nail salon and coin laundry in the US stop serving the defendants is nuts. As the order is to those "having actual knowledge of this Default Judgment and

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-05 Thread John Levine
It appears that Joe Greco said: >While the issue of domains being confiscated and being handed over to a >prevailing plaintiff for an international domain with no obvious nexus >to the United States ... Most of the domains do have US nexus. Two are in .TV, one in .COM, both run by Verisign, one

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-05 Thread Grant Taylor via NANOG
On 5/5/22 6:07 AM, Joe Greco wrote: Greetings - Hello, Aside: Any greeting more cheerful / up beat seems ... misplaced. Recently, a court issued a troubling set of rulings in a default decision against "Israel.TV" and some other sites.

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-05 Thread John Curran
On 5 May 2022, at 7:12 AM, William Herrin mailto:b...@herrin.us>> wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 3:09 AM Joe Greco mailto:jgr...@ns.sol.net>> wrote: It seems to me like the court overstepped here and issued a ruling that contained a lot of wishful thinking that doesn't reflect the ability of

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-05 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 3:09 AM Joe Greco wrote: > It seems to me like the court overstepped here and issued a ruling > that contained a lot of wishful thinking that doesn't reflect the > ability of miscreants on the Internet to just rapidly register a new > domain name with a new fake credit

Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-05 Thread John Curran
Joe - All excellent questions. The Internet is a relatively new phenomenon when it comes to the US court system and thus there has always been an ongoing risk of “interesting” court orders that are shaped by primarily by the plaintiffs understanding of the Internet (rather than being shaped

Court orders for blocking of streaming services

2022-05-05 Thread Joe Greco
Greetings - Recently, a court issued a troubling set of rulings in a default decision against "Israel.TV" and some other sites. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.572373/gov.uscourts.nysd.572373.49.0.pdf