We are notifying the appropriate authorities about this incident.Īrs asked OpSecSecurity to expand on its incontrovertible evidence, but we received no further reply. These attempts are easily identifiable and easily disproven. OpSec’s enforcement efforts are occasionally spoofed by a third party in an attempt to damage OpSec’s reputation.
We have incontrovertible evidence that proves these DMCA notices were not perpetrated by or originated with OpSec Security. The content in question all appears to be Ubuntu Linux ISO. OpSec Security’s DCMA notice sending program was spoofed on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, by unknown parties across multiple streaming platforms. OpSecSecurity was the first to respond and categorically denied having sent the notice: AdvertisementĪrs reached out to u/NateNate60, Comcast Xfinity, and OpSecSecurity, the anti-piracy firm that allegedly sent the DMCA takedown notice to Xfinity in the first place. If the customer continues triggering DMCA takedown notices for long enough, the ISP will eventually begin escalating from warnings to service suspensions-or even an outright ban. The ISP uses this information to send a warning to the customer who had that public IP address at the time, and things proceed from there. Rights owners and "authorized agents" can connect to an illegitimate swarm themselves, harvest the IP addresses of all parties involved, and send DMCA takedown notices to the ISPs responsible for those IP addresses. While the customer is attached to the swarm, their public IP address is advertised-this allows other members of the swarm to request pieces of the files being torrented from that user.
#DMCA TWITTER SOFTWARE#
Typically, DMCA infringement warnings are sent as a result of an ISP customer using BitTorrent to acquire media or software illicitly. Adding insult to injury, the hash listed on the notice is the same one associated with Canonical's own torrent for Ubuntu 20.04.2-u/NateNate60 was getting dinged for torrenting an unmodified copy of an open source operating system.
#DMCA TWITTER FREE#
The strange thing about this warning was the "infringed work" in question: Ubuntu 20.04, which is free to redistribute by any means desired. The notice warned him that Comcast had "received a notification by a copyright owner, or its authorized agent, reporting an alleged infringement of one or more copyrighted works." This week, Redditor u/NateNate60 got a nasty surprise in his inbox-a DMCA infringement warning from his ISP, Comcast Xfinity.
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