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British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law
An anonymous reader writes "British ISP Sky Broadband cut off ACS:Law and refuses to cooperate after at least 4,000 of their customers' information was carelessly leaked. According to Sky Broadband, 'We have suspended all co-operation with ACS:Law with immediate effect. This suspension will remain in place until ACS:Law demonstrates adequate measures to protect the security of personal information.' Sky Broadband had been providing customer information to ACS:Law as part of their anti-piracy operation."
..we need more detail about this. Examples are required.
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...something about locks, a stable door and a horse comes to mind...
Laters Sol "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
Of course Sky is upset because the blackmail got out - they were KNOWINGLY WORKING WITH THE BLACKMAILERS.
Whoever greenlit "working with" ACS:Law or anyone else of the sort at Sky ought to immediately be canned, stripped to their underwear, and unceremoniously thrown into the street never to find a job working at any telecommunications or technology firm again. And the people who hired those idiots should get the same treatment.
"...the ultimate exposure of thousands of individual's personal information - their IP addresses, their names, addresses, and the pornography they're accused of sharing."
Oh. Um, well, DAMMIT!
A small correction. Their homepage is http://www.acs-law.org.uk/ . Anyway they seem to have been slashdotted (and 4channed probably), so it doesnt matter what their website is.
Slashdotted my arse; did you read the title of the post? British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law (emphasis added).
Perhaps Mr. Praline can explain it better:
'E's passed on! This website is no more! It has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the server rack 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-WEBSITE!!
What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
I thought it was some weird perl module.
No doubt someone will now write a perl module which accuses random ISP customers of copyright infringement.
ought to immediately be canned, stripped to their underwear, and unceremoniously thrown into the street
You're doing it wrong! If you fire them first, you don't get to coerce them to strip THEMSELVES down to their underwear and throw THEMSELVES into the street in vain attempts to save their jobs, then laugh at them when you tell them they're still fired.