Cox taber vigtig sag om ‘sikker havn’

In a strongly worded rebuttal (PDF) to BMG's accusations, Cox described Rightscorp as selling "shady services" to copyright owners. Rightscorp "shakes down ISP customers for money without regard to actual liability, and it tries to enlist ISPs in its scheme," Cox lawyers write. The ISP doesn't act on Rightscorp's notices because they're "wrongful" and inadequate, but Rightscorp kept dumping "thousands of notices per day" on the ISP. When Cox wouldn't get on board, Rightscorp and its biggest client sued. "This suit is Rightscorp's retribution, with Plaintiffs? complicity, for Cox?s refusal to participate in Rightscorp?s scheme," state Cox lawyers.

Cox "works well with many copyright holders," but considered Rightscorp notices "improper, as involving extortion and blackmail." In a mostly redacted section of its legal brief, Cox describes its system of "graduated response" for responding to allegations of copyright infringement. Cox notes that account termination is "not the industry norm" but goes on to emphasize that it does, in fact, terminate some account holders because of copyright complaints. But "the decision requires discretion," since some subscribers don't understand what gave rise to copyright complaints and may need help keeping their Internet access secure, or removing malware, before the company takes the "extreme measure of termination."

On the whole, Cox argued its procedures are "reasonable" and that Rightscorp's notices were properly blacklisted because they were deceptive. "For non-blacklisted complainants, Cox takes some action, although not always a customer-facing action, on 100% of copyright complaints it receives," the company's lawyers wrote (emphasis in original.)

Sn3akr (1) skrev:

Det er da noget af det dummeste jeg endnu har hørt.. Så er det også biludlejeren, som skal straffes, hvis jeg lejer en bil og kører en mand ned med vilje?

HenrikH (4) skrev:

#3: Hvorfor?

Skal Netto så også fordi en spedditør de havde hyret ikke har fjernet malingen fra den lastbil der er solgt, og så igennem nogle led endte i Libyen (eller hvor det nu var)?

HenrikH (6) skrev:

Næh, egentlig ikke - de har sandsynligvis en større procentdel af verdens Netto lastvogne end af verdens Toyota biler.
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HenrikH (6) skrev:

Hvis du ikke kan se at Toyota ikke kan kontrollere hvor deres brugte biler videresælges, så ved jeg ikke hvad jeg skal sige ..