Cease and Decist. Your Printer is Downloading Indianna Jones
I just read a FANTASTIC article about how a CS graduate student and two faculty members of the Unversity of Washington received 9 DMCA takedown notices for printers, devices which can’t download anything, were caught downloading copyrighted material via BitTorrent. Previously, the only way I knew anything close to this to be possible is through open access points. But the article lists 5 ways that a client may be wrongly implicated for downloading infringing material. In doing so, they examine a lot of mechanics of BitTorrent but not so much as to overwhelm a non-BitTorrent expert. The article is a very neutral paper and is not meant to be be pro piracy or pro MPAA/RIAA and goes as far as making recommendations on how to improve the system so such false implications don’t occur in the future. Nice work guys!
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