{"id":1951,"date":"2011-04-15T13:52:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:31","slug":"please-be-aware-lawsuit-drm-spied-on-me-gathered-my-personal-info-sent-it-to-copyright-enforcers-who-called-me-with-150000-legal-threat-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/15\/please-be-aware-lawsuit-drm-spied-on-me-gathered-my-personal-info-sent-it-to-copyright-enforcers-who-called-me-with-150000-legal-threat-boing-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"Please be aware &#8211;&gt; Lawsuit: DRM spied on me, gathered my personal info, sent it to copyright enforcers who called me with $150,000 legal threat &#8211; Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/04\/15\/lawsuit-drm-spied-on.html\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fancylogo.png' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit has been filed over a 3D imaging tool called Transmagic whose demo came bundled with a DRM program called Sheriff, produced by Licensing Technologies Limited. The suit alleges after Miguel Pimentel, a Boston-area architect, installed and then deleted Transmagic, Sheriff remained on his computer, and that it scoured his computer for his personal details, then phoned home to a copyright shakedown company called ITCA (IT Compliance Association), and that subsequently, a rep from ITCA called Pimentel and accused him of pirating Transmagic. The ITCA rep demanded an immediate $10,000 license fee payment, and threatened a $150,000 copyright lawsuit if he didn&#8217;t cough up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/04\/15\/lawsuit-drm-spied-on.html\">Lawsuit: DRM spied on me, gathered my personal info, sent it to copyright enforcers who called me with $150,000 legal threat &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A lawsuit has been filed over a 3D imaging tool called Transmagic whose demo came bundled with a DRM program called Sheriff, produced by Licensing Technologies Limited. The suit alleges after Miguel Pimentel, a Boston-area architect, installed and then deleted Transmagic, Sheriff remained on his computer, and that it scoured his computer for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/15\/please-be-aware-lawsuit-drm-spied-on-me-gathered-my-personal-info-sent-it-to-copyright-enforcers-who-called-me-with-150000-legal-threat-boing-boing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Please be aware &#8211;&gt; Lawsuit: DRM spied on me, gathered my personal info, sent it to copyright enforcers who called me with $150,000 legal threat &#8211; Boing Boing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[120,119,345],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-boingboing","tag-drm","tag-spying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10168,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/10168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}