Warner Bros. Threatens Canadian

[JackSpratts]

P2PNet News

MediaForce, a hired Warner Net security firm which uses its mediaSentry to automatically scan p2p nets for "copyrighted works", has targeted a Canadian Grokster user for alleged copyright infringements.

mediaSentry trawls the Net looking for 'illegal' file sharers and when it finds one, shows the p2p app and sharers' IP addies. Address owners are then Whois-ed, MediaForce contacts the ISP or block owner involved and the downloader gets a 'Stop it or Else' notice.

The Grokster user says, "I, like millions of others am simply using the internet to use services like Grokster, and Kazaa, otherwise, why have a computer? I simply download music and movies from other people, and share them as does everyone else. I have no desire to reproduce or distribute anything. I do this, I assume like most, for my own private use. This seems absurd that they can somehow hack into my computer to see what I am doing in the privacy of my own home."
http://www.p2pnet.net/news/mediaforce1.html

let me know if you've gotten one of those.

- js.