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UK ISPs To Start Sending 'Piracy Alerts' Soon (torrentfreak.com)
Beginning next year, internet service providers in the UK will send email notifications to subscribers whose connections have been allegedly used to download copyright infringing content. In what is an attempt to curtail piracy rates, these alerts would try to educate those who pirate about legal alternates. TorrentFreak adds: Mimicking its American counterpart, the copyright alert program will monitor the illegal file-sharing habits of UK citizens with a strong focus on repeat infringers. The piracy alerts program is part of the larger Creative Content UK (CCUK) initiative which already introduced several anti-piracy PR campaigns, targeted at the general public as well as the classroom. The plan to send out email alerts was first announced several years ago when we discussed it in detail, but it took some time to get everything ready. This week, a spokesperson from CCUK's "Get it Right From a Genuine Site" campaign informed us that it will go live in first few months of 2017. It's likely that ISPs and copyright holders needed to fine-tune their systems to get going, but the general purpose of the campaign remains the same.
they really named their group cucks?
. . . will continue to use VPNs and selective IP blocking to bypass it. I got particularly peeved when I got a nastygram from ComHell, because I was using BitTorrent to download Linux distro. . .
"You appear to have tried to download episodes of [popular series which is not available on your country due to retarded geo-locking policies] from kick-ass torrents. Since there's no legal way for you to obtain this due to the short-sightedness of the copyright holders, may we suggest that you use the pirate bay instead?
XOXO, your ISP"
which is fitting its quid pro quo for their rights, then I'll start to respect theirs.
Until they stop gaming the system to get unearned rights AND THEN RENEGE ON THEIR RESPONSIBILITY, I couldn't give a rat's ass if "their stuff" is copied wantonly around the planet.
n/t
The copyright powers that be are welcome to play whatever games they want as they play whack-a-mole with the roughly ten billion methods there are to download copyrighted content (and I say this speaking as an author whose books have shown up on pirate websites), but now this crap is in the classrooms? When the f*ck did that become part of the common core? I mean, sweet Jesus, at my engineering firm I can't find a kid out of college to hire who can add two numbers in their head if the result is beyond single digits, but we're going to take time out of the school day to expound the virtues of respecting intellectual property laws?
Told to get rid of region restrictive bullshit like the rest of the media industry at large.
Fuck all of you.
There are things I would pay for IF I WAS ALLOWED TO.
Beyond that, I pay for pretty much everything I consume.
I WANT to pay for your content.
Don't copy that floppy: 2016 version. Look, I posted again!
US ISPs usually only send out alerts for P2P traffic. Going to an HTTP site usually avoids it entirely (obtain file by seeing it in network traffic and using curl to download it).
Of course, some other distribution forums send encrypted text files that contain links to encrypted archives on mega.nz and such.
like moot?
I couldn't tell you the last time I logged in to my Comcast email account. It's been quite a few years. Last time someone had given my email out as part of some family or friends listing and were posting all sorts of nonsense.
[John]
Shit better not happen!
When the notice states that the "infringing file" was a Ubuntu ISO image. . . . . This was years ago
Was this around July 2011, when Emacs was discovered to include copyright infringements? Or around June 2012, when certain falling block games were ruled to infringe copyright, with M-x tetris in Emacs possibly next on the hit list of a video game developer who thinks free software should never have existed because it destroys the market?
So this means I will get a notice from them urging me to quit using my pirated copy of Cadence and switch to geda?
I only download.
I'll be sure to download all my public domain content from a Genuine Site in the future.
Have gnu, will travel.
The end of the UK internet, first legislation f^&*ing encryption and legalising mass surveilance and now the copyright mob are poking their fingers in. Time to pipe everything through another country. Also don't use any services with the end point in the UK which you expect to be encrypted.
just wait for them to flag windows update BitTorrent like system as an piracy system.
But in market streaming of live sports with your tv package is nice even more so when your provider is having an issue with the TV feed on there side or with rain fade.
If I get a notice, it will just mean I have to be more careful to switch to my VPN. I don't always remember.
This was tried in Canada and Australia and IIRC, in both cases the copyright guild (or lobby to use the US term), not the ISP, was slapped for demanding money. In Australia, they were also denied John Doe warrants. The UK version pushes the burden of policing onto the ISP, who is now also responsible for snooping on all internet activity.
What happens when that's not possible? I mean it's still infringing behaviour but now everyone knows it's the fault of guild members that a certain product isn't being sold in the UK.
I have gotten two notices about supposed torrent piracy from my IP and it was for movies I have never heard of, much less downloaded. My wifi is encrypted so no idea why.
They descend on it like wolves, divide the content, and raise the prices by 1000%.
To get what you got on netflix just a few years ago, you'd need to subscribe to a half dozen services which are really overpriced for the content they provide.
There is room in the market for Netflix vs Amazon but not netflix vs a dozen other services.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
You say that, but annual fees for the services we subscribe to in my household work out far less than the cost of buying all those shows and movies on DVD would have been a few years earlier. The gap is even wider once you take into account the not-sure things that you could try because they were on a streaming service and it wouldn't cost you any more if you gave up ten minutes in.
I still buy a load of stuff on DVD/Blu-ray, but those are the things I want to keep, because I don't trust the likes of Netflix not to renegotiate some licensing deal and remove a show I'm enjoying in the middle of a season. In terms of financial cost, for the kinds of shows and movies I'll probably only ever watch once anyway, the streaming services are still way cheaper for frequent viewers even if they have to sign up for a few different ones.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
I currently only download stuff, where there are none (no, I do not think badly dubbed versions 3 years later and only on DVD are an "alternative").
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
What you are saying and I am saying are not contradictory.
Netflix was $10 and included DVD's.
Netflix (from $7.99 per month) ... ... ... ... ... ...
Amazon Instant Video (from $8.99 per month)
Hulu (from $7.99 per month)
Showtime (from $10.99 per month)
HBO Now (from $14.99 per month)
Starz (from $8.99 per month)
CBS All Access (from $5.99 per month)
Warner Movie Service (From $10.00 a month)
Sling TV (for Disney) is $20+ a month
For people with less money (college students?) the difference between $10 a month and $50 a month is sufficient to spur piracy. It feels silly to pirate for $10 a month and take the legal risks. But $100 for the content now fenced off in the services above (and more- some things not streamed or even legally available for purchase) is more tempting for people of limited means.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Right, but most people aren't students, and $10/month for access to a library the size of Netflix is still vastly cheaper than buying everything a typical subscriber might watch there the way you had to before the streaming library services were around.
I might also wonder what anyone who is watching enough stuff to need $60+/month of subscriptions to that many different services at once is actually doing with their lives, but that's a different question.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.