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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)."

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  1. Please, Please, Please start a trend. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I really, really want it to become a trend to deliberately download red-flagged content from IP addresses other than your own. Do it over poorly-secured Wi-Fi, or public access or whatever, but do it to prove a point.

    That seems like the natural activist thing to do.

    1. Re:Please, Please, Please start a trend. by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Informative

      The key difference is that driving recklessly is a physical danger to other motorists, downloading of copyright material has zero physical impact.

      --
      "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
  2. Your Wicket is Taken by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Should not it be called "The Taken Wicket Policy"? What is this "Three Strikes" non-sense you speak of?

    Off for a spot of tea...

  3. 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..

  4. £20 to appeal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes thats right, even though it is only an accusation, it will cost the innocent £20 to deny the accusation! telegraph article