Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉3d ago

What should I do if Gen AI is being used to falsely accuse me of torrenting something?

I have never been interested in anything George R. R. Martin related, and yet I'm being accused of torrenting House of the Dragon. 🙄🙄

I need advice from people knowledgeable about digital forensics and law. Please share.

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Rally has received a notice that the IP address that was assigned to you or is currently assigned to you has been involved in unauthorized use of copyright contents.
Attached is the complaint received by the Rally abuse department. It appears that this complaint is ultimately intended for you or someone using an IP that is assigned to you. However, please remember that when utilizing service provided by Rally, you are required to comply with our Acceptable Use Policy, and a violation of that policy may be considered a violation of the terms of your customer agreement with us.

All Canadian Internet Service Providers are required by law to forward all copyright infringement notices they receive to their clients. This is an allegation of unauthorized use of material such as downloading games, movies or music.

• If you receive a notice of alleged infringement, it is because a copyright owner has identified your Internet address as being involved in an activity that allegedly infringes their copyright.
• Receiving a notice does not necessarily mean that you have in fact infringed copyright or that you will be sued for copyright infringement.
• The Notice and Notice regime does not impose any obligations on a subscriber who receives a notice, and it does not require the subscriber to contact the copyright owner or the intermediary.
• The information provided by the copyright owner should help you understand the details of the alleged infringement.
• An objective of the Notice and Notice regime is to discourage online infringement on the part of Internet subscribers and to raise awareness in instances where Internet subscribers' accounts are being used for such purposes by others.
• U.S. copyright fines and penalties do not apply in Canada.

Show threadRichard Johnson

@crowgirl

I was abuse desk at a USA natl lab (an FFRDC) for decades when DMCA came in. I worked w/ org's counsel on copyright policy & responses.

Only 1 of over 1,000 DMCA takedown demands was for real activity.

Shady crooked/incompetent DMCA takedown industry reported "sharing" by unallocated IPs, printers, etc. Flow logs said no such activity had occurred (except for the 1 inc when it very much had 😬).

Counsel sent cease and desist letters to most egregious repeat DMCA false offenders.

Mar 24 at 10:22pmFedilab
Show threadRichard Johnson3d ago

@crowgirl

Usual modes were...

Crooked DMCA industry: they were trying to shake us & our staff down for a vig they called a "settlement".

Incompetent DMCA industry: they picked up chaffed false peer listings on torrents and acted as if such were real.

If your ISP has forwarded to you a vig offer/demand from DMCA crooks, it might be time to get a more competent ISP who knows those are almost always scams.

Show threadRichard Johnson3d ago

@crowgirl

If you have a dynamic IP...

If your ISP has failed to do time correlation with your use (vs prior or later customers' use) of the involved IP address against the reporter's sharing time window, then it might be worth reminding them that IP assignment is dynamic when you ask them to be more precise.

If there is no time window reported, then your ISP should probably be binning the defective DMCA industry reports rather than bothering you with them.