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Mathew's comments: Judge to YouTube: Cough up those IPs

  • Mark McKay · 1 year ago
    So does this mean if Viacom wanted it could take this information and knock on the doors of the people who uploaded the content and sue them?

    This seems very very scary. Is this what we have in store here in Canada with Bill C-61?

    Mark
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    As far as I can tell it definitely means that, Mark. When it comes to
    Canada, the proposed bill doesn't give content companies the right to
    compel ISPs or other hosting services to reveal IP addresses -- it
    just creates a "notice and notice" system whereby if the copyright
    holder becomes aware of activity by a user, it can let the ISP know
    and then the provider has to pass that notice onto the user. That's as
    far as it goes. In order to get a specific user's info, the content
    company would have to go to court and get a court order.