Don't trust your ISP
Collection agencies are probably high on the list of calls/mail you don't want to receive. Afterall, who wants to owe money they don't have? The RIAA doesn'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 copyright-protected music or face a lawsuit for hundreds of thousands of dollars.Leadbetter, a mother of two teenage children, was a customer of Comcast's high-speed Internet access service.
The 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.
But 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.
Here's hoping Ms. Leadbetter will lead a better life now that she's suing Comcast. What did Comcast fear? It's the number one cable provider. If Verizon stood up to the greedy beast and won, why turn tail now?
Pun intended. ;-)
