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   Appellate Courts Recognize Strike 3's Ability to Meet Standard for Early   
   Discovery to Obtain John Doe Defendant's Name and Address   
      
   While some bullheaded District Court judges have stopped Strike 3 in its   
   tracks by denying its request for early discovery, most appellate courts   
   to have considered the issue find that Strike 3's allegations of   
   copyright ownership and illegal downloading of their works by an   
   identifiable IP address are enough to permit Strike 3 to discover the IP   
   address owner's name and address.   
      
   https://www.natlawreview.com/article/strike-3-saga-turning-bitto   
   rent-downloads-copyright-infringement-settlement-0   
      
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   Bill Horne   
   Telecom Digest Moderator   
      
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   There are a number of artists (Janis Ian, for one) who distribute   
   their works via BitTorrent and other online channels, without   
   payment. If some mego-record-corp decides that it owns those works, I   
   don't want to get sued for downloading them, just because I'm not a   
   millionaire who could fight back.   
      
   That's not even to mention the Linux binaries that I get via   
   BitTorrent: if some preteder-to-the-Linux-throne *COUGH*Redhat*COUGH*   
   decides to make an example of someone like me, what then?   
      
   Bill Horne   
   Moderator   
      
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