On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:12:29 +0100, Paul Mansfield <[email protected]> said:
> how would you ensure that the message, if in HTML, didn't have
> some sort of tracking URL/beacon in it which could allow the
> rights holder to discover your customer's IP and thus go on a
> fishing trip?
Please don't give them ideas! Right now they send a PGP signed plain
text message with a little bit of XML (reproduced below). So it's safe
from that point of view.
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:33:48 +0100, Paul Civati <[email protected]> said:
> Do they not provide even a simple amount of info such as
> offending IP address and date/time?
Machine readable, even. Here is a pseudonymised example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Infringement xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.acns.net/ACNS
http://www.acns.net/v1.2/ACNS2v1_2.xsd"; xmlns="http://www.acns.net/ACNS";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
<Case>
<ID>123456789</ID>
<Status>Open</Status>
<Severity>Normal</Severity>
</Case>
<Complainant>
<Entity>Paramount Pictures Corporation</Entity>
<Contact>IP-Echelon - Compliance</Contact>
<Address>6715 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90028
United States of America</Address>
<Phone>+1 (310) 606 2747</Phone>
<Email>[email protected]</Email>
</Complainant>
<Service_Provider>
<Entity></Entity>
<Contact/>
<Address/>
<Phone/>
<Email>[email protected]</Email>
</Service_Provider>
<Source>
<TimeStamp>1970-01-01T00:00:00Z</TimeStamp>
<IP_Address>192.0.2.1</IP_Address>
<Port>64748</Port>
<Type>BitTorrent</Type>
<SubType BaseType="P2P" Protocol="BITTORRENT"/>
<UserName/>
<Number_Files>1</Number_Files>
</Source>
<Content>
<Item>
<TimeStamp>1970-01-01T00:00:00Z</TimeStamp>
<Title>The Uninvited</Title>
<FileName>The Uninvited (2009) [1080p]</FileName>
<FileSize>1343555069</FileSize>
<Hash Type="SHA1">a78b2d9d549214aed627z06412b23d87a99921</Hash>
</Item>
</Content>
<Notes/>
<Verification/>
</Infringement>
pgp5kBzaiHDoz.pgp
Description: PGP signature
