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UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published

Posted by timothy on from the talk-about-micromanagement dept.

judgecorp writes "UK regulator Ofcom has published details of plans to disconnect illegal file-sharers. It is the 'three strikes' policy which ISPs unsuccessfully appealed against, and it requires ISPs to keep a list of persistent copyright infringers (identified, as usual, by their IP address). ISPs will have to send monthly warning letters to those who infringe above a certain threshold. If a user gets three letters within a single year, the ISP must hand anonymised details to the copyright owner, who can apply for a court order to obtain the infringer's identity (or at least, an identity associated with that IP address)."

4 of 150 comments (clear)

  1. VPNs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    VPNs will be the order of the day!

    In other news: First Post! :P

  2. Re:Onion Routing by Githaron · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If your computer is setup to act as a node on Tor or another onion routing technology and a pirate uses your computer as a exit node, the pirate's traffic would look like your traffic to your ISP..

  3. Re:Please, Please, Please start a trend. by cpghost · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These influential guys will be added to a whitelist of allowed copyright infringers. Do you really expect anything else?

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    cpghost at Cordula's Web.
  4. Re:The pirates are not concerned. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So when you're done "sharing" the media in question, you meet again to return the media, right? You're not keeping it because that's not how sharing works.

    Anyone ever share a story or a joke with you?

    Did you give it back afterwards?