BadReligionPR submitted an interesting article on the MSFN website. A while back we already reported on a company called MediaForce, a New York based anti-piracy group that monitors piracy across the internet and report infringing users.
On the MSFN website we can read that people in Sweden are now also receiving letters from MediaForce. Someone received a mail which contained a legal notice telling him that he has been monitored sharing copyright protected files over the sharing program 'Direct Connect':
The letter has been composed by the Director of Enforcement from Mediaforce in New York. The Director of Enforcement wrote this letter on behalf of New Line Cinema Corporation, a division of AOL Time Warner ("New Line"). IP, downloading time and username were also included in the letter. |
This is one of the first real evidences that big media companies like AOL Time Warner behalf divisions which monitor the sharing networks for copyright violation.
If the article is true then consider it a warning.. Peer-to-peer file-sharing is becoming more and more dangerous and Hollywood might just be watching you. Read the complete copyright-infringement letter here.
Source: MSFN
