I've had a (real) copyright take-down notice come to me via e-mail, though I think perhaps this is an initial stage before the "actual" legal document gets sent out.

Still, it's enough to get some people confused and worried even when they receive a legal-looking e-mail.

The fact that email is even conceived of as an acceptable way to send a legal document is beyond stupid. Maybe this is a good thing, since it might force the government to send out registered letters AS IT SHOULD ALWAYS DO, instead of unreliable, falsifiable, and not to mention *INFORMAL* methods such as email.

Anyone stupid enough to think that an emailed subpoena is legitimate doesn't deserve to be in a position of responsibility.

Even a modicum of intelligent thought plus a call to the local courts will tell you that subpoenas MUST BE DELIVERED IN PERSON. That's why there are servers who MUST place the court document DIRECTLY in the hand of the person named.

C'mon, folks, are there really that many idiots running businesses out there? Have you all fallen prey to the concept of "the computer says so, it must be true?"

WHEN WILL THE INSANITY STOP?

Use your brains for more than head stuffing, people!

Hello? "Most domains end in uscourts.com". So we've got a vital piece of information. Why isn't every ISP in the land out there adding uscourts.com to a block list? I would agree to my ISP filtering out certain traffic for me as an orderable service level.

Our clients would pay their ISP to effectively filter this garbage at their border gateway, but hardly an ISP offers it? For our clients we update block-lists into their firewalls, but I'd love to do it centrally and with one click for all of them.

This stuff shouldn't be this hard. Why are you asleep Cisco?