I am sure all of you know of these guys. But what do you do when they keep
spamming your abuse address with reports for illegal downloads from
IP-addresses that are in no way related to our business?
I tried contacting them. And was told repeatedly that I had to update whois
information if I want the reports to be sent to another address. How I do
that for IP-ranges that are not mine is a good question. Besides the whois
information for said IP-ranges already have valid abuse information and it
is not our email address.
I am sure all of you know of these guys. But what do you do when they keep
spamming your abuse address with reports for illegal downloads from
IP-addresses that are in no way related to our business?
fairly certian that nothing ip-echelon sends is ever valid...
or there's enough 'clearly you are joking' mail from them that anyone
who ends up in court for 'ip echelon violations' could simply subpeona
their isp for 'other complaints from ip echelon' and show the judge:
"Clearly these folk are on the good crack, case closed due to
reasonable doubt."
Are these the jokers that send out PGP signed antipiracy notices, but don't have that key available anywhere on the internet (keyserver, webpage, etc) to validate the authenticity of their signed messages?
Consider: they're sending email. It's unsolicited (you did not ask for
it by confirmed/closed-loop subscription). And it's bulk: these are not
individual messages, they're auto-generated and primarily consist of
identical boilerplate. Thus, unsolicited bulk email, thus spam (since
that's the canonical definition).
If the IP addresses, hostnames, or domain names are not yours, why would you even bother responding? IANAL, I don't think it's your responsibility to direct them to the correct place.
Consider an auto-responder directing them to the DMCA page of your corporate website.
matthew black
california state university, long beach