Legal notice sent to Meerut University for torrenting (downloading movies and tv series)

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Piracy is piracy. You cannot ignore it for ever. University is stupid to allow unrestricted unmonitored access to a 1gbps line.
 
I thought according to the Indian law that piracy is considered only when you redistribute some one else's work for personal gain. For example if X person starts selling bootable windows 10 pen drives then that person can be punished not the one who is buying it. I know its a flawed law but it favors people like you know who(us). Please correct me if I am wrong.
 
Giving unrestricted unmonitored access is not stupid! They just need to do phone number verification so they can link the IP addresses to a phone number.
 
How are you going to link to individual device on a wireless network that has a single IP? 🙄

MAC address?
 
Mac filtering can be done and thus only allowing registered mac address ,that can solve the problem but is a lengthy process and instead of that they you might use the same process which five stars Hotels use. Giving a unique user name and password to each room and here they can give a unique user name and password to each student and that student would then be responsible for any wrongful doing. @vedantlath : Your point was absolutely nonsensical.https://broadband.forum/members/vedantlath.25181/
 

Is it not as easy as installing a firewall guys?

Any good network shouldn't already have it and it is just the matter of configuring the rules?
 
so a us based co can sue us here?
and we can't do anything regarding Bhopal gas tragedy.
 
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From the article:

'The National Informatics Centre (NIC), New Delhi, on Friday sent a copy of the notice to CCSU. The NIC had received the legal notice from one Adrian Leatherland from the Australia-based anti-piracy firm IP-Echelon. The Los Angeles-based Paramount Pictures is a client of IP-Echelon, which monitors online piracy across 25 countries. One of the firm's biggest clients is HBO, which had hired it last year to track down "pirates" who were leaking episodes of its hit show 'Game of Thrones' online.'

I hope some one with more legal knowledge can help me out here because in my opinion they don't have a case. The maximum NIC would do is take bribe from the university and shut the case but again I have no legal knowledge on this and this is just my point of view.
 
If Paramount Pictures has office in India I think they can file a case.
 
If the content has been copyrighted in India, of course the owner of the content can sue for copyright infringement. Pretty much every movie studio has presence in india today. They release these movies in india. So i am guessing they get it registered under local laws.
 
It doesnt even have to be copyrighted in India. Being a signatory to the WTO, under the WIPO Copyright Treaty, India is obligated to protect trademarks of other WTO nations as well or face sanctions.

Companies like LV, Armani etc. have used this provision to exert significant pressure on China/Hong Kong to reduce availability of counterfeit goods.
 
Gurugarmee said:
How are you going to link to individual device on a wireless network that has a single IP? 🙄

MAC address?
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The IP address gets linked to the mobile number. Suppose the Wi-Fi network assigns you the IP address 192.168.1.5, then you go through the verification process where you enter your mobile number and then enter the OTP that you received on that number, then you download a pirated movie.

To find the person in whose name the download was done, the people suing you will need to give the 5-tuple of the connection and time:
- source IP address (i.e. public IP address of Wi-Fi network)
- source port number
- destination IP address
- destination port number
- layer 4 protocol
- precise date and time

(assuming a high-volume CGNAT network. With low-density implementations just the source IP, source port and time should be enough).

With these details, the Wi-Fi network operator will try to find who sent the packets from the NAT logs. The NAT logs will find a match to 192.168.1.5. The operator will then check portal logs to see which mobile number was using 192.168.1.5 at the date and time in the complaint. This will lead to your mobile number which the operator will then give to the court.

One of the reasons all big public WiFi networks in India use mobile number verification is that they can tell who was using the network at the time when the police or courts asks them to.
 
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In that case the people suing you will ask the VPN provider. If the VPN provider keeps logs they can say the VPN connection was being used from this IP at this time.
 

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