Comments on: Judge to YouTube: Cough up those IPs http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/07/03/judge-to-youtube-cough-up-those-ips/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:07:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/07/03/judge-to-youtube-cough-up-those-ips/#comment-342902 mathewi Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:42:06 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2535#comment-342902 As far as I can tell it definitely means that, Mark. When it comes to<br>Canada, the proposed bill doesn't give content companies the right to<br>compel ISPs or other hosting services to reveal IP addresses -- it<br>just creates a "notice and notice" system whereby if the copyright<br>holder becomes aware of activity by a user, it can let the ISP know<br>and then the provider has to pass that notice onto the user. That's as<br>far as it goes. In order to get a specific user's info, the content<br>company would have to go to court and get a court order. 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.

]]> By: Mark McKay http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/07/03/judge-to-youtube-cough-up-those-ips/#comment-342901 Mark McKay Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:55:40 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2535#comment-342901 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?<br><br>This seems very very scary. Is this what we have in store here in Canada with Bill C-61?<br><br>Mark 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

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