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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.
. . . 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"
Case in point: What "legal alternatives" would it recommend to someone caught pirating the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea or the film Song of the South?
A personality transplant?