Lee Jun-young, INFINITE, Jung Eun-ji, and others' agency Billions expands domestic and foreign civil and criminal legal response against cyberbullies [Official]

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Billions, the comprehensive entertainment agency to which Lee Jun-young, group INFINITE, Jung Eun-ji, and others belong, is expanding its strong legal response against cyberbullies.

Billions announced its stance on 'protecting the rights of affiliated artists and expanding domestic and foreign legal response' on the 28th.

According to Billions, cases of malicious posts being spread using community and SNS platforms headquartered overseas such as the United States, overseas IP addresses, anonymous accounts, and VPNs have recently surged, and it has been confirmed that domestic investigations alone have limitations in identifying the posters and securing data, so legal response measures are being taken against overseas platforms as well.

The following is the full text of Billions' statement

Until now, we have been conducting continuous legal responses in close cooperation with domestic law enforcement authorities regarding various illegal acts such as the spread of false facts, creation and reproduction of malicious rumors, defamation, insult, sexual harassment, and invasion of privacy targeting our affiliated artists.

In fact, lawsuits and complaints have been filed and investigations have been conducted against a large number of malicious post writers and spreaders, and some have already undergone punishment procedures.

However, it has been confirmed that cases of malicious posts being spread using community and SNS platforms headquartered overseas such as the United States, overseas IP addresses, anonymous accounts, and VPNs have recently surged, and that domestic investigations alone have limitations in identifying the posters and securing data.

In particular, in the case of overseas platforms, there have been many cases where obtaining membership information, access records, and account data is limited by requests from domestic law enforcement authorities, and movements that repeatedly spread false facts and insult personalities by taking advantage of this are also being continuously detected.

In addition, it has been confirmed that there have been many attempts to evade country-specific tracking or investigation networks by using VPNs and overseas IP bypass access, and in fact, law enforcement authorities have also confirmed that some post writers have used VPNs, overseas servers, and anonymization services to spread posts in an organized and repetitive manner.

However, we would like to clearly inform you that it is no longer possible to evade responsibility by simply bypassing overseas IP addresses or deleting accounts, as it is now possible to secure data through cooperation with overseas legal representatives and through U.S. judicial procedures.

Therefore, we would like to inform you that we have expanded legal measures by going beyond the existing domestic legal response system and cooperating with U.S. local legal representatives and specialized law firms to respond using U.S. judicial procedures.

We plan to actively utilize the U.S. local court's discovery system to proceed with the submission procedure for the following materials against overseas platform operators.

[List of collected materials]

'Account registration information'

'Access and login IP records'

'Email and phone number authentication history'

'Access devices and activity logs'

'Post writing and deletion history'

'All other materials that can identify the poster'

Through this, we intend to identify posters using overseas communities and anonymous accounts to the end and hold them accountable for civil and criminal liability both domestically and abroad.

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