"If the violator keeps torrenting material, the copyright holder can file a “John Doe” lawsuit. Basically, the company sues hundreds or thousands of IP addresses, and a court can then order a university to divulge the names of the individual users through a subpoena, according to professor Annemarie Bridy of the University of Idaho College of Law.
In order to protect themselves against any legal trouble, universities commonly forward copyright infringement notices to individual offenders on their networks. By doing this, universities also save the copyright holder the trouble of filing a lawsuit, Bridy said."
- Date Published:02/18/2015
- Original Publication:Columbia Spectator