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UK ISP Disconnects Customers For File Sharing

Posted by kdawson on from the one-strike-and-you're-dead dept.

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..."

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  1. A modest proposal by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Folks, due to a recent string of unfortunate postings, I have found myself at the short end of the Karma stick.

    If you are a moderator, you have three choices facing you. First, do nothing and affect me neither positively nor negatively. Second, you can mod me down as off-topic, which I will certainly, though reluctantly, agree is an appropriate moderation for this post. Finally you can consider my productive and lively posting history and moderate this comment up.

    I'm not begging you, moderators. I know you have your own agendas. Some of you are staunch Open Source zealots and are searching for heretics to burn. Others are pedants who see no benefit in posts that are even slightly divergent from your perspective. Your agenda is your business, and since Slashdot has awarded you with moderation points, your agenda and perspective must have some merit.

    What I would ask is simply that you spare a point in rescuing me from an automatic -1 posting level. It doesn't take any extra work on your part, and it will only take 4 of you to put this particular post up to +5.

    Thank you for exercising your moderation rights.

    1. Re:A modest proposal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Dude, that's BadAnalogyGuy. Haven't you /seen/ his posts around before? You must be new here. ;P

    2. Re:A modest proposal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      So only approved postings should continue here? We should avoid "nonstandard posting" so that we don't get our "posting privileges" revoked?

      Perhaps the brilliance of the analogy flew over your head like a rock.

    3. Re:A modest proposal by mcgrew · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You just begged for even lower karma. You know your post is offtopic, but you posted it anyway. I see you have no journals; the journals are there for exactly this kind of post. Or anything at all you want to write.

      You can even write about dope or hookers or mod points. The last journal I posted was about the first moon landing.

      Some other comments to your comment give a step-by-step to getting your karma back.

      --
      Free Martian Whores!
  2. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod parent down. It is more annoying to see this as the first comment on this story than it would be to see the usual FIST PROST / FROST PISS / FIRST PSOT garbage.