:Erroneous DMCA notices and copyright enforcement, part deux
Erroneous DMCA notices and copyright enforcement, part deux Dec 21, 2009, 11 :02 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (4007 reads) (Other stories by Mike Freedman)
"I'm glad that my own experience was able to shed some light on the more insidious practices that are still going on under the umbrella of copyright enforcement. More transparency is especially important at this time, given the current debate over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
"Given this discussion, I wanted to write a short follow-on to my previous post.
The VPA drops Nexicon
"First and foremost, I was contacted by the founder of the Video Protection Alliance not long after this story broke. I was informed that the VPA has not actually developed its own technology to discover users who are actively uploading or downloading copyrighted material, but rather contracts out this role to Nexicon. (You can find a comment from Nexicon's CTO to my previous article here.) As I was told, the VPA was contracted by certain content publishers to help reduce copyright infringement of (largely adult) content. The VPA in turn contracted Nexicon to find IP addresses that are participating in BitTorrent swarms of those specified movies. Using the IP addresses given them by Nexicon, the VPA subsequently would send pre-settlement letters to the network providers of those addresses."
