Re: RIAA Notices

["Holland II, Richard H" <rick.holland () UTDALLAS EDU>]

Anyone see this?

Mysterious Multiplication of Copyright Complaints

http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/05/06/riaa

Rick


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of Joel Rosenblatt
Sent: Mon 5/5/2008 12:19 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: RIAA Notices
 
Hi,

Here is some facts from our automated DMCA system

Looking at the last 157 takedown notices
Average difference between timestamp in notice and verification was 388.64 seconds (6.48)
Maximum time was 3110 Seconds (51.83)
Minimum time was 0 Seconds
Significance - in one hour, we may turn over the dynamic IP address 4-6 times

Looking at the timestamp they send you is a good way to find the wrong person if your using a dynamic IP assignment.

Since we switched (to automation), we find less than 2% bad reports.

My 2 cents
Joel Rosenblatt

Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel


--On Monday, May 05, 2008 11:27 AM -0400 Tracy Mitrano <tbm3 () CORNELL EDU> wrote:

> Yes, Pat, we have a single case of this description which we are still investigating and one where the time stamps do 
> not match up with any activity on the
> IP address.  
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> Glad you asked.  If other folks begin to see anomalies it would be good to share that kind of information among us 
> for the purpose of identifying
> potential patterns.
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> Thanks, Tracy
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> On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Falcon, Patricia wrote:
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> Last week we saw perhaps double or triple what we usually get in a week.  Today we received word from two of the 
> students who said that they
> hadn't downloaded what the RIAA said they had.  Is anyone else seeing false positives out of this group?
>
> Pat Falcon
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Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel