I see an increasing font piracy activity at ge.tt. The website does not answer file removal requests probably due to the fact that it is registered in Trinidad and Tobago. But Ge.tt make use of an application available at iTunes Store. I guess if something can be done considering Apple is distributing an app used to exchange copyrighted files. Any idea? Who should I contact?
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inetnum: 79.125.64.0 - 79.125.127.255
netname: AMAZON-EU-AWS
descr: Amazon Web Services, Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2, EU
remarks: The activity you have detected originates from a
dynamic hosting environment.
For fastest response, please submit abuse reports at
http://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/contactus/AWSAbuse
For more information regarding EC2 see:
http://ec2.amazonaws.com/
All reports MUST include:
* src IP
* dest IP (your IP)
* dest port
* Accurate date/timestamp and timezone of activity
* Intensity/frequency (short log extracts)
* Your contact details (phone and email)
Without these we will be unable to identify
the correct owner of the IP address at that
point in time.
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role: Amazon Data Services Ireland Technical Role Account
address: Amazon Data Services Ireland
address: Digital Depot
address: Thomas Street
address: Dublin 8
address: Ireland
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tech-c: AJ176-RIPE
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role: Amazon EC2 Abuse
address: 1200 12th Avenue South
Seattle
WA
US
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% Information related to '79.125.0.0/17AS39111'
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Here is what they recommend themselves:
ralf's point about dmca takedowns is good, it's basically the only recourse you have these days and at worst, you get ignored if the 'company.' Many tend to respect them, oddly enough.
The whois on ge.tt may appear comforting on the abuse front, but the abuse address is ultimately designed to report and catch machines which have 'gone rogue' and are ddosing somebody. At that point, amazon steps in.
Real quick, i am 100% not a lawyer. Anyhow, amazon or any vps host really have no incentive to take any action. Why? Due to section 230 of the communications decency act, ocilla and the likelihood that ge.tt probably qualifies for the dmca's safe harbor provision all of which mostly provide some form of immunity to ISPs, hosts and sites like ge.tt as long as they pass the blame on to their users while complying with some fairly basic rules.
As far as i know, ge.tt is not obliged to make their dmca copyright agent email accessible, only 'accessible' which probably stops most people from taking action. In any case, send a letter, in the worst of cases, it's still ignored, but if you wish to pursue it further, you can probably use their actual dmca non-compliance to legitimately hassle amazon/ec2 since typically that is when amazon has an incentive to actually step in. most of this i learned in grad school from talking to risd's general counsel who worked on compuserve v. cubby and was always willing to educate folks on the murkier areas of copyright infringement and how it affected their practice.
Sending takedown notices can't hurt in any case but the real takeaway is to always keep a lawyer on retainer if you have the means to.