Odex’s international fansub crackdown

Update (21/11): Official news of BayTSP’s mistake given in Singaporean newspaper The New Paper. OtakuTimes even got referred to in the article ^_^. Source: DarkMirage

Update (20/11): DarkMirage reports that after speaking with an Odex employee this was all a mistake on BayTSP’s part.

It would appear that Odex, the Singaporean anime distributor that we have mentioned before, are now attempting to extend their fansub crackdown internationally!

In the past few days fansub downloaders from the USA (Comcast), Japan (Usen), and France (Club Internet), have received DMCA notices for downloading unlicensed anime episodes (using Bittorrent). In the latter two cases the notices explicitly mentioned that they were sent by BayTSP on behalf of Odex; it can be assumed that this is probably the case for the Comcast downloader also.

Here are some extracts from the letter sent to the Club Internet user:

BayTSP, Inc. (”BayTSP”) swears under penalty of perjury that it is authorized to act on behalf of ODEX Private Limited/Anti Video Piracy Association (Singapore) (collectively known as ODEX/AVPAS), the exclusive licensees and/or authorized agents of the owners of copyright materials and interests (the Copyright Owners) that is protected in Singapore under applicable copyright laws in force and enacted pursuant to various international treaties. BayTSP’s search of the protocol listed below has detected infringements of exclusive copyright interests on your IP addresses as detailed in the attached report.

Evidentiary Information:
Notice ID: 61192
Asset: Ouran High School Host Club
Protocol: BitTorrent
IP Address: 89.85.xx.xx
DNS: i07v-89-85-xx-xx.d4.club-internet.fr
File Name: [Nerae]_Ouran_High_School_Host_Club_22_[57603381].avi
File Size: 370843648
Timestamp: 11 Nov 2007 06:17:33 GMT
Last Seen Date: 11 Nov 2007 06:17:33 GMT
URL: http://bt.nerae.com:7072/announce
Username (if available):

Other series mentioned in DMCA notices so far include Gundam 00 and Shugo Chara!.

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