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UK ISP Disconnects Customers For File Sharing
think_nix writes "Karoo, an ISP in Hull, in the UK, is disconnecting subscribers without warning if they file-share, or are even suspected of file-sharing. Karoo is the only ISP in the area. Copyright owners are working with the ISP helping them identify and report suspected filesharers using their services. In order to get service restored, subscribers have to go to Karoo's office and sign a form admitting guilt and promising not to do it again. The article states that some subscribers have had their access cut off for more than two years." Update: 07/24 16:29 GMT by KD : The Register is reporting that Karoo has relented and has changed its policy. A spokesman said: "It is evident that we have been exceeding the expectation of copyright owners..."
Get the IP address of the Karoo president, and denounce him to the Karoo tech as the originator of suspicious copyrighted file sharing. Hilarity ensues.
The UK isn't like the U.S.
From TFS: Karoo is the only ISP in the area.
It isn't simply a matter of moving from one ISP to another. The UK is very big, so local monopolies are very common. These victims have no recourse.
Wow, that really is a bad analogy (and long one too)!
Apparently "kangaroo court" is now "karoo court"...
Yeah, because everyone in Hull craps money.
"...hire a team of lawyers"
[looks at wallet, then dials phone] - "Hello, Lionel Hutz?"
How about going to their office en masse and burning it down?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
All other parts of the UK are served by BT
I hope BitTorrent becomes an ISP in my area too!
My webcomic
Hutz: All right, gentlemen, I'll take your case. But I'm going to have to ask for a thousand-dollar retainer.
Bart: A thousand dollars? But your ad says "No money down".
[shows his paper ad: "Works on contingency basis. No money down."]
Hutz: Oh! They got this all screwed up...
[makes a few corrections: "Works on contingency basis? No, money down!"]
Bart: So you _don't_ work on a contingency basis?
Hutz: No, money down! Oops, it shouldn't have this Bar Association logo here either.
Interesting? Insightful? Informative?
From BadAnalogyGuy? His sole purpose is to give us witty analogies, which, true to his name, are terrible – although it sometimes requires a bit of inspection to find what is so glaringly wrong (thus their brilliance: what should be glaringly obvious is not always so obvious at first). They're puzzles... brain teasers... just like his post here. His insight lies not in his straightforward posts, but in the bad analogies themselves!
Asking for interesting, insightful, or informative posts from BadAnalogyGuy would be like asking for apples from a peach tree. Now, I like apples, and don't get me wrong, I like peaches, too. But apples from a peach tree? Come on. You get apples from apple trees.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Dialup is guaranteed by the regulator through a Universal Service Obligation. However pressure by BT, the dominant ISP in the UK, on the regulator prevented the universal service obligation including broadband.
This is like asking for your driver's license back by driving into another policeman.
Yeah, I like that. Taxpayers are obligated to subsize unrestricted file sharing. That'll go over big in ANY country.