Time Warner Cable refuses to expose porn pirates
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Time Warner Cable, one of the nation's largest Internet service providers, has refused to turn over customers accused in a lawsuit by Larry Flynt Publishing of pirating one of the company's porn films, according to Flynt's attorney.
In October, Dallas-based attorney Evan Stone filed three separate lawsuits against more than 4,000 "John Does," alleging the defendants illegally shared the movie "This Ain't Avatar XXX." The copyright suit was filed on behalf of Larry Flynt Publishing (LFP), which oversees Flynt's adult-entertainment empire, including Hustler magazine.
The identities of the accused are unknown because Stone only possesses Internet protocol addresses of people alleged to have used peer-to-peer software to pirate films. To identify the defendants, he needs each person's ISP to match IP addresses to names. Stone said TWC agreed to only turn over 10 names per month, an amount that he said is totally unsatisfactory. A TWC spokesman declined to comment.
For more on this story, read ISP won't reveal names of alleged porn pirates on CNET News.
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Reread the story, Einstein.
1. It's not the RIAA doing the requesting. It's a lawyer representing Larry Flynt.
2. TWC IS giving them the information, just very, very slowly.
I give props for taking their sweet time. BTW: They have the match the IP with the date and time it was assigned, not just match the name. I change my IP all the time, by changing my MAC address assigned to the router and rebooting it.
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