Comcast Protests “Shake Down” of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates
Found on TorrentFreak on Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Comcast has run out of patience with the avalanche of BitTorrent lawsuits in the United States. The ISP is now refusing to comply with court-ordered subpoenas, arguing that they are intended to “shake down” subscribers by coercing them to pay settlements.
“It is evident in these cases – and the multitude of cases filed by plaintiffs and other pornographers represented by their counsel – that plaintiffs have no interest in actually litigating their claims against the Doe defendants, but simply seek to use the Court and its subpoena powers to obtain sufficient information to shake down the Doe defendants.”
Comcast? Really? What's next, GoDaddy being helpful? Those questions aside, it's good to see that finally a big ISP is fed up with all this and decides to stand up against it. Even though it's probably not because Comcast feels that this is the right thing to do, but because their customers are getting annoyed and switch to other providers.