Copyright Infringement Notice?

Someone from SOPA will be contacting you shortly. I'd start preparing to flee if I was you.
 
Give us details, if you dont mind? What email address did they send it from? Who do they claim to be? Did they mention you by name?
 
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yum install sabnzbd
 
Yes IS actually forwards these DMCA complaint from US to the users. Telkom backbone [aka SAIX] just never does anything with these emails. So if you are using IS you can expect to get these emails. Nothing more than scare tactics. Although I heard that some ISP's actually cut internet access after recieving these emails which is think might not be legal without a court order?
 
cavedog said:
Yes IS actually forwards these DMCA complaint from US to the users. Telkom backbone [aka SAIX] just never does anything with these emails. So if you are using IS you can expect to get these emails. Nothing more than scare tactics. Although I heard that some ISP's actually cut internet access after recieving these emails which is think might not be legal without a court order?
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Not legal, in fact ISP's in SA are not even allowed to inspect my data let alone cut it because of a dispute on its contents.

SA we have a Fair Use Copyright that is civil not criminal. So in order for them to do anything to me the Copyright holder(not the ISP) has to take me to civil court and claim damages. To claim damages they need to prove that I did not use it under the Fair use law ie: do not a) own a legal copy of the works or b) use it for educational purposes.

So yeah, to sum it up send email to /dev/null and use peer block.


They have to prove you breaking this one:
COPYRIGHT ACT NO. 98 OF 1978

12. (1) Copyright shall not be infringed by any fair dealing with a literary or musical work—
(a) for the purposes of research or private study by, or the personal or private use of, the person using the
work;
(b) for the purposes of criticism or review of that work or of another work; or
(c) for the purpose of reporting current events—
(i) in a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical; or
(ii) by means of broadcasting or in a cinematograph film
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While you can say they broke this one:
Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002

Unauthorised access to, interception of or interference with data

86.
(1) Subject to the Interception and Monitoring Prohibition Act, 1992 (Act No. 127 of 1992), a person who intentionally accesses or intercepts any data without authority or permission to do so, is guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who intentionally and without authority to do so, interferes with data in a way which causes such data to be modified, destroyed or otherwise rendered ineffective, is guilty of an offence.
(3) A person who unlawfully produces, sells, offers to sell, procures for use, designs, adapts for use, distributes or possesses any device, including a computer program or a component, which is designed primarily to overcome security measures for the protection of data, or performs any of those acts with regard to a password, access code or any other similar kind of data with the intent to unlawfully utilise such item to contravene this section, is guilty of an offence.
(4) A person who utilises any device or computer program mentioned in subsection (3) in order to unlawfully overcome security measures designed to protect such data or access thereto, is guilty of an offence.
(5) A person who commits any act described in this section with the intent to interfere with access to an information system so as to constitute a denial, including a partial denial, of service to legitimate users is guilty of an offence.
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In short, I'll tell em good luck with that. :)
 
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