{"id":2417,"date":"2005-04-15T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2005\/04\/15\/dont-trust-your-isp\/"},"modified":"2005-04-15T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T13:34:59","slug":"dont-trust-your-isp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2417","title":{"rendered":"dont-trust-your-isp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collection agencies are probably high on the list of calls\/mail you don&#8217;t want to receive.  Afterall, who wants to owe money they don&#8217;t have?  The RIAA doesn&#8217;t care, and now <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/news.com.com\/Comcast+sued+for+disclosing+customer+info\/2100-1030_3-5671438.html?tag=nefd.top%22\">neither does Comcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dawnell Leadbetter said that she was contacted by a debt collection agency in January and told to pay a $4,500 for downloading copyright-protected music or face a lawsuit for hundreds of thousands of dollars.<br \/>\nLeadbetter, a mother of two teenage children, was a customer of Comcast&#8217;s high-speed Internet access service.<br \/>\nThe company, Settlement Support Center, based in Washington state, was using information that the Recording Industry of Association of America had obtained in a Philadelphia lawsuit over the illegal sharing of digital music files, said Lory Lybeck, the lawyer representing Leadbetter.<br \/>\nBut no court authorized Comcast to release names and addresses of its customers, or notified his client that her information had been given to an outside party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping Ms. Leadbetter will lead a better life now that she&#8217;s suing Comcast.  What did Comcast fear?  It&#8217;s the number one cable provider.  If Verizon stood up to the greedy beast and won, why turn tail now?<br \/>\nPun intended. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collection agencies are probably high on the list of calls\/mail you don&#8217;t want to receive. Afterall, who wants to owe money they don&#8217;t have? The RIAA doesn&#8217;t care, and now neither does Comcast. Dawnell Leadbetter said that she was contacted by a debt collection agency in January and told to pay a $4,500 for downloading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}