Copyright infringement notice

[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

On Aug 22, 2012, at 14:53 , Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:

>> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com at nanog.org  Wed Aug 22 14:55:41 2012
>> From: Larry Smith <lesmith at ecsis.net>
>> To: nanog at nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: Copyright infringement notice
>> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:55:13 -0500
>> 
>> On Wed August 22 2012 14:07, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>>> I'm NOT SURE whether the ISP has any potential liability in _this_
>>> situation -- there's nothing 'published' by their customer for them to
>>> 'take down', etc.
>> 
>> Actually, I believe in most cases the only way "they" (DMCA)
> 
> There is no 'they' that is the DMCA -- it is simply a piece of legislation.
> That said, there is nothing the OP said to indicate that what he received
> _was_ a DMCA 'takedown notice'. although a follow-up did *assume* that that
> was what the OP received.
> 

Yes... In this case, "they" would be the DMCA authors -- the RIAA and the
MPAA. (which is what I suspect Mr. Smith actually meant).

Owen