Yesterday we collected that anti-pir-cy associations are increasingly looking for methods to identify pir-tes or prevent them from operating websites in the first instance. This week they announced that they want anyone who registers a website or contracts CDN services to be identified. Now, they have found a new way to identify hackers more quickly if caught torrenting .
One of the most common ways to accuse users of pir-cy is through torrenting. When sharing a torrent, our public IP address appears in the swarms. If an association collects it, it can then ask a judge to ask an operator to identify the user who owns the line whose IP has been discovered by sharing content. This method, however, does not guarantee to find the author, as he may have used a public IP or hacked into a WiFi network.
Now they will take less time to identify pir-tes
However, they have now found a small loophole that speeds up the process. Instead of filing a lawsuit for violating copyright laws, an attorney requested a DMCA subpoena on behalf of several film companies. Thus, the companies asked the operator Hawaii Telecom to identify 25 users whose IP addresses had been discovered sharing the movies of Hellboy, Angel Has Fallen, The Hitman’s Bodyguard , among other titles.
These DMCA subpoenas do not have to be reviewed by a judge, where they can be signed faster in periods of time that can be as long as a single day. In addition, it saves money and resources, where it only costs $ 49 compared to a traditional claim, which reaches $ 402. At the same time, it avoids having to wait for a trial and all the legal paperwork that this entails, where the summons only has to be signed by the court clerk.
The number of users sued could skyrocket
A couple of decades ago, the RIAA association tried a similar tactic, but the operator refused to identify users, arguing that DMCA subpoenas are only valid when a service stores or links to protected works, not when they are simply exchanging traffic.
However, now it seems that this procedure is supported, and therefore a new avenue is being opened for it to go even more against users who use the torrent to share protected files. Doing a paperwork in a day instead of weeks or months will streamline the process and can cause IDs to skyrocket .