“Importantly, the methodology for identifying infringed content and the IP address from which it has been distributed is based on a review of peer-to-peer networks and publicly available information,” the blog post states. “No personal consumer information will be obtained by MarkMonitor or content owners either in generating the notices or in passing them on to consumers.”
However, armed with an IP address, as we’ve seen many times before, it usually isn’t terribly difficult to get that subscriber information from an ISP.
Finally, Lesser explained to Ars that consumers will have to pay $35 to the CAS to initiate a review procedure, which will be refunded if the consumer wins the review.