I wonder how. The spoofed domain explanation doesn't make any sense. If you you are able to redirect users to download from your own servers you don't need any additional software to find out their IP address. Maybe what gladii does is to embed code into the movie file itself so it can be used as a honeypot. I'm not familiar with the swf format or whatever they host on redtube to know whether that is possible.
> They didn't send cease and desist letters. As I understand it they asked for money right away.
That’s sort of combined in Germany. You can ask for (reasonable) damages and lawyer fees plus for people to sign a ceae and desist. (Of course, in actuality those letters can ask for anything they want. It just might not hold up in court. That’s why receiving one of those letters as a private person sucks. Those don’t have a lawyer on staff to quickly look those letters over.)
In this case the damages they asked for were €15.50 and the lawyer fees were €234.50 (together €250).
This process exists in Germany to efficiently resolve disputes without having to use the courts (mostly between companies, actually) but when it comes to copyright infringement of private persons one could arguably say that it is abused.
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>This swiss company got the IP addresses of the people by deceiving the court in the first place.
No, I think the Swiss lawyers provided the IP addresses asking the court to make Deutsche Telekom reveal the users' true identities.
>Then, they sent thousands of cease-and-desist orders to these people
They didn't send cease and desist letters. As I understand it they asked for money right away.
>All articles also talk about this weird software "gladii 1.1.3" without talking about how this software can collect IP addresses in the first place
That is indeed the interesting question. Apparently the court asked an expert to evaluate the software and the expert confirmed that gladii 1.1.3 could do what it claimed: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
I wonder how. The spoofed domain explanation doesn't make any sense. If you you are able to redirect users to download from your own servers you don't need any additional software to find out their IP address. Maybe what gladii does is to embed code into the movie file itself so it can be used as a honeypot. I'm not familiar with the swf format or whatever they host on redtube to know whether that is possible.
> They didn't send cease and desist letters. As I understand it they asked for money right away.
That’s sort of combined in Germany. You can ask for (reasonable) damages and lawyer fees plus for people to sign a ceae and desist. (Of course, in actuality those letters can ask for anything they want. It just might not hold up in court. That’s why receiving one of those letters as a private person sucks. Those don’t have a lawyer on staff to quickly look those letters over.)
In this case the damages they asked for were €15.50 and the lawyer fees were €234.50 (together €250).
This process exists in Germany to efficiently resolve disputes without having to use the courts (mostly between companies, actually) but when it comes to copyright infringement of private persons one could arguably say that it is abused.