Erroneous DMCA notices and copyright enforcement, part deux

“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.”

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