Using faulty data to demand settlements from innocent surfer

Courtesy Digg / Tech Industry News  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 12:10

A Princeton researcher finds himself bombarded with demands to pay up after swapping adult movies online—but he didn't do it.

It appears to be another case of extremely-lazy IP "enforcement" using bad BitTorrent data collection.


 

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