Noting that its film “Fall” was widely shared on illegal download sites, the studio Capstone Studios decided to address the “pirates” directly through a message distributed by their ISP.
The production studio Capstone Studios obtained from an American ISP, Lumen, that it gives personal information of 150 subscribers. The latter would have helped to illegally relay copies of the film “Fall” in torrents. The approach of the American studio is innovative, in the sense that, in general, DMCA subpoenas are filed against X in court, on a case-by-case basis.
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In the case of Capstone Studios, on the other hand, the lawyers tracked down the IP addresses of people facilitating the sharing of the film on a torrent app, and submitted that list to their ISP, Lumen. In addition to asking him for the contact details of his subscribers to the access provider, the rights holders ask the latter to send the pirates a message, the content of which is as follows: “Capstone Studios Corp. owns the rights to the movie Fall. Unauthorized downloading and distribution of this file by your IP address is copyright infringement […] We ask you to stop redistributing protected content and to take steps to secure your Internet so that others do not violate and redistribute our content as well”.
Rightsholders contact the pirate directly through their ISP
Shortly after, the lawyers filed a DMCA subpoena requesting 150 IP addresses suspected of being linked to the internet users who had been notified. A request promptly granted, which suggests that the ISP very quickly collaborated with the rights holders, and delivered the digital identity of the offenders. These people accused of promoting piracy should be approached very soon and offered “a settlement proposal “.
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Internet users thus finding themselves “unmasked” will no doubt stop sharing the pirated content. While they have for a long time adopted an effective line of defense, which made them only “passers” of information, and not hosts of illicit content, ISPs are increasingly cooperating without going through the courts.
Source : Torrent Freaks
