Re: Copyright infringement notice

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Aug 22, 2012, at 14:53 , Robert Bonomi <bonomi () mail r-bonomi com> wrote:

> > From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com () nanog org  Wed Aug 22 14:55:41 2012
> > From: Larry Smith <lesmith () ecsis net>
> > To: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Re: Copyright infringement notice
> > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:55:13 -0500
> >
> > On Wed August 22 2012 14:07, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > > I'm NOT SURE whether the ISP has any potential liability in _this_
> > > situation -- there's nothing 'published' by their customer for them to
> > > 'take down', etc.
> >
> > Actually, I believe in most cases the only way "they" (DMCA)
>
> There is no 'they' that is the DMCA -- it is simply a piece of legislation.
> That said, there is nothing the OP said to indicate that what he received
> _was_ a DMCA 'takedown notice'. although a follow-up did *assume* that that
> was what the OP received.

Yes... In this case, "they" would be the DMCA authors -- the RIAA and the
MPAA. (which is what I suspect Mr. Smith actually meant).

Owen