UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @04:56AM 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)."

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VPNs by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-26 04:59 · Score: 3, Insightful

VPNs will be the order of the day!
In other news: First Post! :P
Re:Onion Routing by Githaron · 2012-06-26 05:13 · 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..
Re:Please, Please, Please start a trend. by cpghost · 2012-06-26 05:17 · 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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