Other settlement trollies are active in Canada.
A family friend that I do occasional tech support for received about 30 copyright notices this week, forwarded from his ISP under Canada’s Notice on Notice regime. The one he forwarded me originates with Vobile Inc. in California, on behalf of Viacom.
He’s a senior citizen in his late 80s living in a retirement home. He has just the one PC connected to his cable modem, and no WiFi. There’s absolutely no possibility that he was downloading “The Shannara Chronicles” with BitTorrent in the middle of the night as the notice claims. He hadn’t heard of either.
Canada’s Notice on Notice system no doubt limits RightsCorp / Prenda / Voltage Pictures style shakedowns. But seniors are lucrative targets for fraud.
I’ve advised him not to contact Vobile. I emailed his ISP on his behalf, and they sent back a standardized form giving the distinct impression that they want nothing to do with it. They’ll only hand over his information to the trollies if they get a court order.
