UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @09:03PM from the this-way-round dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As well as taking an active part in OFCOM's code of obligations in regards to the ill-conceived Digital Economy Act (the UK three-strikes law for filesharers), niche ISP Andrews & Arnold have identified various loopholes in the law, the main one being that a customer can be classified as a communications provider. They have now implemented measures so in your control panel you may register your legal status and be classed as such." Another of the loopholes this inventive ISP sussed out: "Operating more than one retail arm selling to customers and allowing customers to migrate freely with no change to service between those retail arms, thus bypassing copyright notice counting and any blocking orders."

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Re:Come May, I'm quite stuck. by heathen_01 · 2010-04-28 01:24 · Score: 0, Troll

STV is not PR. Would you like to try again?
Re:Lib Dems by Anonymous Coward · 2010-04-28 01:57 · Score: -1, Troll

you 'pirates' need to fucking grow up and get jobs.
What the fuck makes you think you are entitled to atke other peopels hard work for free?
Fucking thieves, nothing better than that...