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..."

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Sounds like they are hard up for cash.

[kaptink]

It's not like internet access is expensive or hard to get in Hull. Internet is peanuts in and around London. Why persecuted users wouldn't move on to a friendlier ISP without this harsh tone I don't know. This ISP looks like they are hard up for cash and can't pay for bandwidth and/or to stupid to install some traffic management, or run by some blind do-gooders. Either way, they'll loose. Plenty more ISP's to sign up with who don't harass their customers like that. If it were me, I'd tell Karoo to kram it sideways.

i hate the mafiaa

[circletimessquare]

i think copyright is a dead concept

but in a world where genocides and starvation and slavery still occur, to speak about "human rights" about internet access is overly pompous

don't ratchet your language up on concerns of, frankly, nonimportant issues to the basics of human dignity

i mean we could also call what karoo is doing "terrorism"

but its the same overuse of terminology meant for far more dire situations than anything remotely touching this case

Re:i hate the mafiaa

[circletimessquare]

if the world lags sufficiently behind the west, jealousy and hatred sets in, then all sorts of problems

you care, because you have a human conscience, not a western conscience

caring only about your own community and not caring about genocide somewhere else is not noble, its selfish