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UK ISPs To Start Sending 'Piracy Alerts' Soon (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the piracy-watch dept.

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.

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  1. And clued-in users. . . by Salgak1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    . . . 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. . .

    1. Re:And clued-in users. . . by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Actually, many people did stop pirating when it was easy to legally get the content for a reasonable price. I stopped pirating music years ago for example.

      People are as ethical as they can afford to be.

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      She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
  2. Did that say classrooms? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?

    1. Re:Did that say classrooms? by avandesande · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Teaching kids about condoms and vpns is a parent's responsibility.

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      love is just extroverted narcissism