RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP-Addresses

Ernesto
December 21, 2011
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A few days ago we reported that no less than 6 IP-addresses registered to the RIAA had been busted for downloading copyrighted material. Quite a shocker to everyone – including the music industry group apparently – as they are now using a defense previously attempted by many alleged file-sharers. It wasn’t members of RIAA staff who downloaded these files, the RIAA insists, it was a mysterious third party vendor who unknowingly smeared the group’s good name.

riaa Over the past week we’ve had fun looking up what governments, Fortune 500 companies, and even the most dedicated anti-piracy groups download on BitTorrent. All we had to do is put their IP-addresses into the search form on YouHaveDownloaded and hit after hit appeared.

To our surprise, we found out that even IP-addresses registered to the RIAA were showing unauthorized downloads of movies, TV-shows and software.

This curiosity was quickly picked up by other news outlets to whom the RIAA gave a rather interesting explanation. Apparently these file-sharing transactions weren’t carried out by RIAA staffers, but by a third party who’s using the RIAA IP-addresses to share and distribute files online.

“Those partial IP addresses are similar to block addresses assigned to RIAA. However, those addresses are used by a third party vendor to serve up our public Web site,” a spokesperson told CNET, adding, “As I said earlier, they are not used by RIAA staff to access the Internet.”

This is all a bit confusing. First of all, the addresses are not similar, they are simply assigned to the RIAA. Everyone can look that up here, or here.

Secondly, while we are prepared to believe that RIAA staff didn’t download these files, we are left wondering what mysterious third party did. Also, is it even allowed by the official registry to register a range of IP-addresses to your private organization, and then allow others to use these IPs?

Also, just as a bit of friendly advice, it’s generally not a good idea to let others use your organization’s addresses to browse the internet. This time it’s “just” copyrighted material up for debate, but who knows what else they may be sharing online.

Considering the RIAA’s past of suing tens of thousands of file-sharers for copyright infringement, the excuse is perhaps even more embarrassing than taking full responsibility. When some of the 20,000 plus people who were sued by the RIAA over the years used the “someone else did it” excuse this was shrugged off by the music group’s lawyers. Can these people have their money back now? We doubt it.

Whois pirating?

riaa

Elsewhere, Henrik Chulu from the Free Culture blog discovered that someone at the infamous Johan Schlüter law firm downloaded the Danish movie ‘Dirch’. But Maria Fredenslund from anti-piracy group RettighedsAliancen had their excuse ready.

“We’re working for right holders, who obviously have given us permission to collect their material online as part of an investigative work,” she told Comon.dk in response.

Notably, Sarkozy is staying quiet and not attempting to justify any infringements carried out in his name. Perhaps a case of least said, soonest mended…

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Aaron

Someone hacked their Gibson…
- Einstein
  
  Might have been Angelina Jolie (movie “Hackers”)
  - Wolfcastle
    
    Dat’s de joke
    - Spleh?
      
      No, dude, Gibson’s are real.
    - Fly
      
      The writer of this article clearly doesn’t understand how networking and how IANA/RIPE etc assign netblocks and how they can be used and controlled. It’s clear that RIAA has leased their own IP range so they can easily move them between datacenters, and the datacenter admins have set up their BGP to announce RIAA’s netblocks.
      
      Rest of the comments in this article show just as “much” understanding as the writer does. I hate what RIAA/MPAA are doing, but it’s kind of funny that the same guys who jabber how courts don’t understand technology don’t understand it either when it gets a bit more technical.. :)
    - FlySwatter
      
      The fuck are you talking about Fly? If an IP, in the range assigned to the RIAA is being used to do illegal shit, RIAA is responsible. They werent assigned a range, and then someone outside one of there networks used it for malicious activities. No. Its someone inside their network with the ability to assign the IP to a machine or whatever.
    - Fly
      
      FlySwatter, it’s entirely possible. Normally within datacenter conditions anyone can assign themselves any IP’s that are routed there and not in use. If RIAA hadn’t reserved all of their IP’s to their own use, anyone within the same datacenter could have added those IP’s to themselves. It’s frowned upon by datacenter staff, but technically it’s entirely possible.
    - Pete Austin
      
      Fly – OK, so you’re basically saying RIAA owns the IP addresses and routed traffic from these to a datacenter, but then another company whose non-RIAA servers are in a neighboring rack hijacked the traffic by resetting the local routing. I guess it’s theoretically possible, though it would be extraordinarily lax security.
      
      In that case the RIAA should issue themselves warnings, and if they don’t fix the issue they should ‘implement certain “mitigation measures” to stop the alleged piracy, including reducing Internet speeds or redirecting traffic to a special landing page’
      http://www.nfib.com/press-media/press-media-item/Default.aspx?cmsid=57541
    - Cleveland ParrotHeads
      
      word
- Lynx
  
  I would love to get a hold of some heavy metal like that!
http://twitter.com/Roelvdwegen Roel van der Wegen

I blieve we can safely say, “pop the popcorn!”
- YakihishiAmar
  
  this is all easily avalable info for years such as raia, mafiaa downloading/sharing their stuff and law firms. This just makes it easily for the tech challenged ppl to do as its web based now. They have been poisining files and whatnot since kazaa, but now with bittorrent/etc, they can’t do much but slow things down and sue, but destributing their own files then sue = what they do.
gyqzphlp

Well, if you’re a citizen and claim that someone else used your IP?
Your ass gets sued and they ask a bazzilion for “damages”

If you’re the Riaa , Ifpi, crap-aa?
It wasn’t me! Honest! And case closed.
Now you can continue downloading p0rn stupid mafiaa employees.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001570274913 Venneth Kessels
  
  It’s probably some boring lawyer-type porn, too.
  
  “Permission to Bend You Over the Bench 12″, etc.
  - Jay
    
    Hammer & Gavel: Bend over Bailiff 4
    - http://www.facebook.com/jhborden James H Borden
      
      Heres a good title: You cant handle the truth:all 12 inches of it.
- http://www.facebook.com/jhborden James H Borden
  
  “If” I ever download torrents from anywhere I just want everyone to know it is for “research” purposes only. ok? Okay then. :)
Anonymous

Someone used their unsecured WiFi. They know all the tricks to avoid being caught.
http://twitter.com/xarinatan Alexander (Ced)

BUMA in holland uses the EXACT SAME EXCUSE.
I call bullshit, they’re MADE to be corrupt anyway, Artists hate it, vendors hate it, customers hate it, the only ones that benefit it are themselves.
Ab

LOL Who is being spoofed now?
- http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
  
  In the higher court this is perfectly good defense. In the lower court where the common folks go this is outrageous.
  
  If you think about it they are right about SOPA. No1 in the higher court will be affected, given they bribe the right ppl =)
  - OHSHI-
    
    I hear lobbying is the exact same as bribing…
    
    Oh wait, it is!
http://samj.net/ samj

Will they be pursuing the offending vendor?
Guest

Big deal. They have the right to download torrents of music albums because they have the permission of the labels.
- Anonymous
  
  But they also downloaded TV-shows and software…
  - http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
    
    Not to mention that we can’t be sure they really had the distributors for the stuff they downloaded under their umbrella. But he missed the point. If RIAA themselves had their IPs misused or spoofed then why the regular user can’t use this defense?
    - Guest
      
      Um dude…how can you be sure that site is reliable? I have been using a static IP for 5 years, I don’t use Wifi and I haven’t downloaded a torrent in my life because I only download from filehosting sites. Then how come that site says my IP has downloaded 2 movie torrents?
      
      My case pretty much proves that the site is highly unreliable and cannot be trusted. In all probability it just throws up random information to frame users.
    - lulz
      
      Guest… A private single static ip that you browse the net with?… wow, that would be such fail.
    - ayman
      
      @Guest
      This not a proof that the site is unreliable, it indicate that someone is using your Internet connection without your knowledge… Go check your household before accusing the site.
    - Dht
      
      @Guest
      They are using very similar techniques to the ones used to develop a legal basis to sue the “file sharers”.
      So what you are saying; either your IP was used to download content, or the techniques are not a reliable way to identify file sharing.
- got teeth?
  
  so then, why are they saying they didnt do it
  - Kn
    
    this one must be jackoff gay or one of his friends
- Anonymous
  
  Which implies that they are distributing that content, and then suing peasants for having that content.
  You don’t need a lot of insight now…
  - http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay
    
    You’re right, that doesn’t make any sense. This is like an undercover cop handing out counterfeit money on a street, just to have the people that took the money booked for unlawful possession of counterfeit money.
    - monkeyslap
      
      Sounds similar to cops posing as prostitutes to arrest people for solicitation of sex. They have been doing that for many years. Of course the “I was entrapped” defense never holds up in court.
    - http://vouchedbooks.com christopher.
      
      Like the FBI coaching people to become perform terrorist acts and then arresting them when they go to perform said terrorist act that they’d likely have never done had the FBI not coached them.
    - Beep
      
      The thing is that the police are not allowed to commit a criminal act in the interest of getting you to commit a criminal act. That’s why it’s illegal to sell controlled substances but not to buy. In order to catch you dealing, the police need to make a purchase. monkeyslap below has got it wrong, a vice cop pretending to be a prostitute does not actually have sex with people for money; if she did, it would not be prosecutable.
      
      So the RIAA, if they are seeding torrents in order to catch people downloading, they are breaking the law, which is the difference here.
      
      With that said I’m not sure how the law applies to civil suits, which is what all of these are, criminal law doesn’t apply at all so not sure…
    - SurroundedByIgnorance
      
      @Beep, your statement of fact is 100% incorrect. LE can and certainly do break the law to facilitate an arrest: http://goo.gl/XD1Wt
    - http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay
      
      If the only people that can break laws are the criminals then the criminals have already won – our laws should give police the advantage over criminals (who don’t give a shit about the law), which means the law should not apply to police as it does civilians. (that article you linked to was misguided, to say the least)
      
      The analogy I used was flawed because (as someone pointed out) there’s a difference between a civil prosecution and a criminal one.
      
      What I should have said is that it’s like “a private company buying a plot of land, putting a big sign on it that says ‘come get free stuff’, then prosecuting those that step on the land with trespassing.” The boundary exists solely as a means to trap. That CAN’T be legal.
- Tesla
  
  I have a bridge I think would go nice with your camel
Einstein

So the solution is very easy to all the sued persons that are charged because their IP was found, copy paste the answer of RIAA in your reply to the pay up or else letter and case closed, if not file the same document in court and make sure the judge knows that you send the first letter to the plaintiff. Then you can file for juridical costs and damages (waisted time).
It will from now on be over with the extortion practices of the layers of hollywood.
Just believe you will win, actually, if someone here on torrentfreak has the financial means to start this in a lawsuit he might find himself sponsered by all. (sorry I do not live in USA, otherwise it would be me….. oh wait, I am poor and therefore only download i.s.o. buy) jawohl.
Cyke1

they can lease them to another person since they have paid lease for it but that sub lease would also show up in a ip whois so they are trin to shove the blame off when they are clearly busted.
http://www.cheapassfiction.com/ AeliusBlythe

Wow. What a shocker that when it’s THEIR credibility on the line, the it’s-not-me explanation is sufficient.

The people who have been sued should demand their money back. Not that they would get it. Ever. That’s chance is gone, no doubt. But the people’s ire can be a powerful weapon. Enough people raising enough of a fit might at least shake the “well-they-kind-of-deserved-it” response that too many people have towards cases involving pirates.

Most recently, the SOPA disaster has shown that even copyright supporters have their limits. After all, if you support copyright “protection,” how can you even be sure that the “guilty”parties are even guilty? And this is just more proof that you can’t.

Not that we needed more proof. Not that thousands upon thousands of civilians being harassed without just cause wasn’t enough. But it wasn’t enough for the courts, for the lawmakers, for the copyright trolls. But maybe when it’s THEM getting harassed… naw, probably won’t change much. Only when the profits of antiquated businesses finally disappear will anything change. It never had anything to do with proof, or credibility. Only profit.
http://nthekno.info/ Admin

Great article +1 TF you always know how to serve up some good reading and really smear it on there ;)
Hmm

Riaa you are the account holder of the ip addresses, no defence it is the account holders Responsibility to protect the network or wifi boo hooo boo hoo
Some content owner

I don’t care
$ 50 billion per song please
pay up or else!
- Another_Content_owner
  
  I don’t care
  $ 50 billion per song please
  pay up or else!…… or else we will destroy your life.
  Chlorinating our swimming pools costs us a fortune *sniff sniff
Sink the RIAA

It is pretty obvious that class action lawsuits in the UK, USA and where ever else the scam letter pay up or else letters have been operating are required against the law firms and “rights holders” that have sued on the letter fraud and the attention must be brought to various Gov’t regulators.

The simple fact that the RIAA is admitting that their IP addresses are being spoofed means that no IP address can be used to identify a person/ location without further forensic examination of the suspected computer. This is something that that people have been claiming for years, but were always “guilty” until proven innocent. Now conveniently as TF and other people have raised, it is a viable defense for the Corporates.

Everyone has known for years that various trackers add random, or targeted blocks of IP addresses into the swarm to throw off and bring into doubt the “evidence” of the monitoring companies. This is why little old grannies receive letters for “downloading” [insert weird gay pr0n title involving words like: inter racial, midgets, scat, fists, anal, cream pie].

Everyone should get out there and write a letter to their MP, Senator/ Congressperson, High court judges, law society journals, local paper ect in their various countries and make them aware of this fact, with the full comment of the RIAA’s reply.

Never has such a prime opportunity opened itself up to expose the RIAA et al as such a bunch of liars, that for over a decade have been pushing an agenda to control the interwebs, by shafting people over IP addresses. Not to mentioning ruining innocent peoples lives.

Because of this, Ireland (recently removed), France, New Zealand etc etc have brought in 3 strike policies based upon IP address “crimes”. Based upon what the RIAA has just informed us, all of these pieces of legislation should be immediately stricken as unworkable and unreliable.
- Anonymous
  
  That brought a tear to my eye, Jay.
http://www.youtube.com/user/lVl477H13Ll M@T

“Notably, Sarkozy is staying quiet and not attempting to justify any infringements carried out in his name. Perhaps a case of least said, soonest mended…”

Well, actually, the Élysée Palace responded.

http://torrentnews.net/2011/12/17/3771-france-lelysee-dement-des-telechargement-illegaux-mais-alors-hadopi/
http://reflets.info/hadopi-la-gadgetophrase-de-lelysee-qui-fait-tache/

They said that it wasn’t them and that IP addresses are not reliable because they can bee spoofed.
The problem is that all the HADOPI system relies on busting “pirates” by their IP addresses on P2P networks.
Lr

the set precedent can be use on them though lol
http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

Has anyone figured out yet what would happen to the RIAA if SOPA and PIPA were law already?

I strongly suspect they’d be in serious shit due to their own MAFIAA-sponsored laws supported by their paid-for puppet politicians who openly admit “on public record” they haven’t a clue what they’re doing or why.

For example, this is what was stated during proceedings in the attempted passing of SOPA a few days ago

mablake184 [posted]
“Video3: at 1 hour 46min
Poe: Can we get some people in here who know what is going on during this hearing?

[Chairman] Smith: No, we need to push this bill through even though we don’t know anything.

WTF!!!!”

http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nf5vo/complete_videos_from_1215_sopa_hearing/

Do we need any more info on how stubborn and dumb these paid-for political puppets really are? I think this one quote rests our case IN FULL.
- Danny
  
  Its interesting how little they all appear to know but they are still talking off of some script.
LOLZ-RIAA-JOKE

How can RIAA sue themselves? How can a third party go in and sue these f*ckers for infringing the rights of the ones they are supposed to protect?

If I was Jay-Z I would have sued them for 250,000-1,000,000 for treble damage to my name, company & life – See how RIAA would respond to this. Go suck d!ck you doublestandard hypocrites
http://www.facebook.com/people/Victor-Long/100003231146025 Victor Long

lol, no way dude, now that is jsut too funny dude.
Complete-Anon.tk
- Cabbage
  
  Go away spammer.
Anonymous

because it’s them using the ‘it wasn’t us. our IP address is being spoofed. our wifi isn’t secure, so has been hacked’ excuses, it’s ok. it’s only NOT ok when those excuses/reasons are being used by ordinary people. they now have the problem that admitting to what we all have been saying for years, makes the RIAA/MAFIAA etc look like absolute bigger, hypocritical pricks than they already did!
Anonymous

To be consistent, they damned well should sue themselves.
HollywoodAnna

Perhaps I invite derision by saying this, but one season of Dexter is all anyone could ever need.

Anyway, I could never imagine the RIAA lying about anything. They wouldn’t. They’re the good guys after all. *smirk*
- Danny
  
  Dexter is great! Its the only thing I still watch on TV these days.
  Everybody has different views, yours obviously suck!
  - Solano
    
    Dexter is simply awesome, period. Dexter and CSI Miami are my daily bread and butter on TV these days.
    - Sombre666
      
      And add a cupful of Breaking Bad and you’re set (only BB for me the others mentioned are a tad boring in comparrison).
Guest

I think we can say now that, RIAA is digging themselves a hole? I mean, now if some ordinary folk gets sued by RIAA, he can just tell to the court that it wasn’t him – his IP was spoofed, his WiFi was hacked etc. And he can show to the court that RIAA themselves have used the same defence.
Am I right?

Btw, can TorrentFreak (or any other tech savvy person) check MPAA’s IPs? Are these IPs hard to collect? Lets say if we also get positive results, we can see what’re the MPAA’s excuses. And then people can use those in the future cases.

(Yeh, sorry for my English :D)
- Beep
  
  well, as the guys at YouHaveDownloaded.com have stated, and many people on Torrentfreak have concurred, these results aren’t damning, they’re a far cry from admissible court evidence that’s
  - Beep
    
    shit I should finish my thoughts before I post. whoops.
  - FinalApokylypse
    
    While your right that the findings of YouHaveDownloaded.com aren’t damning and would never be able to used as court evidence it would still actually be something I would bring up or atleast discuss with a lawyer if I was actually taken to court. It still shows a huge double standard as they didn’t deny that the files were denied, their claim was that it wasn’t them it was someone on our IP range.. I would claim that the same people suing me think its ok for them but not the average person to claim such a thing and therefore the claim is void. Course I am no lawyer but it will at the very least pique the judges interest I’m sure.
    - FinalApokylypse
      
      Geez.. should read they didn’t deny that the files were illegally downloaded*
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http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay

So, basically the RIAA is leaking albums onto the internet for the sole purpose of suing those that download it? Aren’t sting operations only authorized by the government/ law enforcement officials?

I don’t believe a private company has the right to conduct their own law enforcement/ prosecution ring. How are they allowed to operate like a rogue government agency?
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Me

Suuuuuure… They can say anything now.
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https://twitter.com/1proof Andrew

Then police need to learn: IP address != a person
- Anon
  
  This is a negate operator just to let all the people know who can’t write code and do not know how stupid easy it is to tell computers to do stuff…they hire experts who tell them stuff but it is like the president in a war no matter how much military advice is given he can never get it! They don’t get it kids can write code as good as a 50 year old can now….
- Tesla
  
  thats for vb and similar programming dude
  
  IP? person
Randy Lahey

Dont hack me bro!
Anonymous

SOPA & PIPA passing is a declaration of war.I have the feeling that many around the world who like a challenge will know exactly what to do with these people.
Send them porn,take down their sites and replace it with porn animal flicks since the RIAA & MPAA are made up of beasts.track down their emails and barrage the boxes with useless emails.Millions around the World will have a field day.They are opening up a box like Pandoras Box.
- Beep
  
  There’s a simpler solution if SOPA gets passed: use it.
  
  There’s no repercussion for false reports under the proposed law. If everyone gets everything shut down and turns the internet into a barren wasteland, either a) they’ll see that it doesn’t work, or, more likely and better, 2) ISPs will stop paying attention to these complaints because of abuse, and we will be back to normal.
  - Anonymous
    
    I sincerely hope you’re being sarcastic. Millions of us rely on the internet and its services to do our jobs and keep the world turning. Some of us wouldn’t have jobs at all if it wasn’t for the internet as it is currently and stand to lose them if this goes through.
    
    Do you really want to see what would happen in that world? No thanks.
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Christophe Thomas

It s so funny to read this … it sounds like the debate over masturbation and the usage of condoms around 1920!
Anon

Everyone who enjoys and utilizes the internet looks forward to the day when governments all over the world knit together into a security and pay model enforcement regimen that secures personal and online corporate identity, payment for the digital files copied, credit card use and purchases, freedom of speech that actually protects SPEECH and a safe and secure accountable internet experience for everyone.

Anyone here who think we will rest until that is secured is living in a wild-west illusion. It’s true you can hack around legislation. It is also increasingly true that the time is coming when dismantling legislative intent will result in a relentless manhunt with life altering punitive consequences. Witness Gilberto Sanchez. The hunt is just beginning and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
Appreciate accountability or be made subject to it. The future is growing clearer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16262412
- Guest
  
  Go away, idiot.
  - Anon
    
    Yes, exactly. Diversity in view is never an improvement in your world. Free speech pirate-style is valid only when all the opinions are in lockstep.
    - Guest
      
      Trolling is not free speech.
  - Guest
    
    “trolling is not free speech” but.. actually it is, you see, he’s exercising his FREE SPEECH to troll (even though what he says is correct)
- Fake
  
  I look forward to the day when the officers of large companies that cheat on their taxes and bribe politicians have their estates confiscated and live out the rest of their lives in a forced labor camp.
- lulz
  
  “Everyone” ? I don’t. You’re entire post is invalidated by your very first word.
Chronoss2008

it was inevitable mister smith
wikid

question how does this YouHaveDownloaded site thing work? and is that not a privacy violation right there?
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Barney-Wills/100003080499889 Barney Wills
  
  nope, when you torrent your ip is there for anyone who wants it.
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Anonymous

boycott them…. I do. Of course i don’t want their stuff anyways. they get a few dollars from me here and there though…I’d rather read books from the library..
Guest

Now these parasites are fucked because either they admit that an IP address mean nothing and therefore could not have prosecuted anyone based on IP adress or they agree that they are downloading stuff and are a pack of criminal hypocrites.
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Guest

Fuckem, hope their wives, daughters, sisters get raped and their fathers, sons and brothers get shot in the face on the streets of the USA. This piece of shit country is gonna collapse.
- Anon
  
  Tell THAT to your Senator. lol
  Idiots here.
- Anonymous
  
  Whoa. Not cool. Guilt by association is not the way.
Lunisce

I smell bullshit.
http://twitter.com/sjkilleen Sean Killeen

Might want to check for those files now and see if they’ve been tampered with in any way. Are there any distributed files that they originally downloaded that now exist with malware/spyware after they’ve been downloaded? Not sure I have the technical chops to verify, but if they call it an unnamed third party, it might be a third part who’s doing some dirty work for them.
Anonymous

So is the RIAA claiming that if someone else uses your connection to download illegal content then you are not liable?
Me

if a rightsholder uploads content, even for tracking purposes, then they have shared the work negating the copyright on it. since they claim that ip addresses always act according to the wishes of the registered user of that address, then any uploads coming from a rightsholder that includes their own material is creating copyleft material.
http://hdmikabel.narod2.ru/ hdmi

So let’s get this straight..

The RIAA has previously sued grandmothers for tens of thousands after their grandchildren downloaded something on their computer, and now they try to use this excuse when violating copyright themselves?

As I have always said, FUCK THE RIAA. They have always been and always will be pathetic.
Ian Bowers

In response to:
“Also, is it even allowed by the official registry to register a range of IP-addresses to your private organization, and then allow others to use these IPs?”

This is fairly common practice. I work at a company where we manage the networks of other companies. As part of our connection we deploy a device at the customer’s location to connect a VPN to for all our traffic to go over. The customer will assign us a public IP that has a static translation to that device, or will assign us a public IP that we put directly on it. Either way, we are the only one using that IP from that point forward even though it’s technically registered to another company.

I don’t mean any of this as counterpoint, it’s just naked information that’s relevant to the topic.
Confused

So what’s wrong with maintaining contradictory stands on the exact same issue? … especially as in:

1. When it applies to THEM
–vs–
2. When it applies to YOU

Lawyers and politicians do this all time, don’t they?
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Davio

This is disgusting. RIAA is a joke.
Nope

It’ wasn’t me! It was the one armed man!

STFU RIAA, you know what you did.
Bob

STRIKE TWO… you internet gets disconnected next!
Anonymous

defense attorneys will be all over this one
Anonymous

I think the RIAA are only lying to us when it is quite unlikely they can trace what really happened here. Either their employees did it, or a hacker bounced data through their network, or some pranksters did spoof their IPs.

Had they known the answer they would have been more detailed in what happened so it all comes down to “We don’t know what happened when we did not do it.”

The same excuse many others gave when the RIAA took them to court.
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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MCWHTHSTZMVRYRV2FRVRAOEXFM k

For God’s sake, this claim is literally juvenile. That’s the standard thing kids say when they’re caught – “Yeah, I was there but it was some other kids doing it, not me!”

And these assholes want Congress to give them a law that would allow them to shut down anyone they want to call ‘pirates.’
- Anon
  
  Not just “want”, they are going to get it. Do you actually doubt this with all we’ve seen so far?
  
  Perhaps not ProtectIP, maybe not even SOPA, but anyone who thinks the free dissemination of “information” that was created for sale and intended for sale won’t be stalked, apprehended, tried and seriously punished is a very narrow, shortsighted thinker. This site seems to spawn quite a few of those who believe “they can’t stop you.” lol Keep daring them. This gets no better!!
  
  The point isn’t whether or not you should use tech and stealth to make unlawful copies of merchandise online. The point is when do you finally come to your senses and protect genuine freedom and free speech by PAYING for the merch you take so you can genuinely SAY in speech whatever you wish.
  
  There’s a big difference.
  Pirates better learn it soon.
  It’s funny you think content creators and rightsholders with digital products to sell online might someday stop asking for protection from your thieving. lol Get a clue.
  - lulz
    
    Dead people (assuming you think corporations are people) don’t talk. <— I fixed it for you.
Alyssa Blindy

No, the RIAA did it. An IP address is a person. Only the RIAA can be blamed for this. They did it. Ahhhhh.
/sarcasm
Guest

“RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP-Addresses”

Ya right! You big fat liars!
Anonymous

This is what they do . How the hell are they catching people who download from torrents? They take the torrent then they log the ips then the go to the ISP and ask for the name of the person online on that ip . Then they send you a threat letter that you have to pay them 800 euros or they sue you.
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Anonymous

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Dutchie

The Dutch version of RIAA, an organization called BUMA/Stemra, was also busted on downloading from a torrent site and used the same excuse. They later retracted it, probably because they realized the precedent they would set with that defense. Downloading a copyright file for individual use is not illegal in The Netherlands so far (uploading is). But they are pushing to make it illegal overhere as well, so it was quite hilarious to see this go down… Google Translate version of Dutch newspaper article:

http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraaf.nl%2Fdigitaal%2F11108501%2F___Buma_downloadt_zelf_illegaal___.html%3Fsn%3Ddigitaal&act=url
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Jana

Fuck these fucking fuckers.
http://twitter.com/Israhelldid911 Michael Zimmerman

Dear China

Go emp MPAA, BSA, and RIAA

Thank you
MC

You got them TF. Caught in a lie.

Good work.
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Anonymous

Perhaps the RIAA can settle for $1600 Trillion for all the illegal copyright fraud. Maybe even double that to get to a nice RIAA approved number.
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http://twitter.com/odishon Frak Apple!

To bad they are not in Germany.. then they would be automatically be sentenced to pay fines.. to themselves.. Perhaps a new scheme to increase the turnover?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KNL5NUP4EJDRZ7WTYX3Z2K66BU N.

‘merica is the most corrupt nation in the world . . . they are the best at hiding it . . . sometimes!
Dude_this_stuff_rocks

The law is clear: any IP in the range assigned to the RIAA being used to do illegal file sharing means that the RIAA is responsible. They demand home users police their wifi, therefore they must be held utterly responsible in this matter. One cannot have it both ways. That’s the legal concept of Tu Quoque. The RIAA, therefore, *is* guilty of illegal file sharing, and must pay the penalty assigned under the law.
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Oomg

yeah sure ….. me too me too just send me some letters and ill say exactly the same

o0mg i got hacked this it is not me …. thanks you come again !
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http://twitter.com/DEMONLORD4000 DEMONLORD

lol, and they complain we the pirates
Anonymous

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Omg

F’ing B/s MPAA when will you ever learn… the internet is the future… embrace it.. so you have downloaded some torrents. Just admit it IT WAS YOU !!!! I agree with Demonlord you say that we are the Pirates. Assholes.
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Tmc80tmc

Maybe the culprit(s) should spend some time with this gang:

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bubba_the_Rat
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http://twitter.com/kenny_lex Kenny_Lex

My IP is always hacked if I get busted for something, but I guess only the evil side will get away with that kind of lie.
Lulacusao

anyone being sued by R.I.A.A can use theyr own excuse now :

… a third party who’s using the RIAA IP-addresses to share and distribute files online.

RIAA Retards in Action A
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http://twitter.com/Itr0ll Pat Patterson

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Hilarious.

I hope the RIAA comes to their senses and stops this blatant grab at controlling the free flow of information on the internet. Thats all this is, has NOTHING to do with piracy… its just the scapegoat… We;ve seen the govt pulling this thousands of times before with other things… 9/11 and Patriot Act…. Now its Piracy/Profits and SOPA….

Get a life you NeoCon scums and let us live ours the way WE want it.
Victim

So, why hasn’t any infringed rights-holder sued RIAA? The evidence is there. And, the defense they’re claiming has been vehemently fought by RIAA’s legal counsel. Game Over!
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http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=76.74.24.146
Holden Robbins

As much as I like to hate on the RIAA has anyone considered, it may be someone paid for by the RIAA to investigate online piracy and keep tabs on what’s available through the torrents?

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