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Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Things like this show there really should be a significant cost to wasting the courts time and that it simply doesn't exist right now.

Let's be clear that there is, for individuals. For firms maybe not, but they could also rely on just never going to court - because it costs too much for who would take them to court.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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One doesn't know how stressful and infuriating these copyright notices are until one lived in a country with internet hijacked by copyright predators. From the moment of receiving such notice there is only stress, misinformation, and verbal abuse. Thanks Americans.

PS. It doesn't matter you downloaded free software, every person you'll contact in the process of straightening this out will be equally clueless and abusive.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Link to image, because reddit is slow: https://i.redd.it/jzf5jegdyb171.png

interesting that Comcast immediately directs the user to delete the file and doesn't even list an option to counter the claim. The trolls are constantly looking and probing for a weak spot, and with high probability they have just found another one - large stupid ISPs like Comcast. Now they only need to scare Comcast into automating the disconnections YouTube style and/or collecting the small settlement fee under the threat of disconnection (or for reconnection) and bingo - perpetuum mobile of a money printing machine.
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