Hacker News Reader

Comment by austerity | Hacker News Reader

I wonder what's in it for them? Sending an email should be enough to comply with DMCA. Are they paid by some copyright groups or just being a pushover?

View on HN

I was thinking the same thing - a nontrivial effort has clearly been spent on implementing this, and it certainly would not be well-received by most if not all of its customers.

Being sued by Hollywood for a billion dollars and passing those costs on to their customers wouldn't be well-received either.

Is there a reason to believe such case would have a chance of succeeding? I thought DMCA clearly protects the ISP as long as they forward the complaints to the offending customer?

isn't comcast owned by NBC?

that means they have a distinct corporate interest in protecting their IP (legitimate or not is another discussion).

other way around - NBCU is owned by comcast.

  isn't comcast owned by NBC?

Vice-versa.

People don't check their email, some don't know they have a comcast email, and most don't give an alternate.

Surely they have the customer's postal address?

This more drastic. The email is tricky, you could have subscribed to their service using your 15-years old hotmail account that you never use anymore.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com