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UK 'Pirates' Get 20-Day Grace Period After Each Warning (torrentfreak.com)
UK Internet providers will soon begin sending piracy warnings to subscribers whose accounts are used to share copyright-infringing material. The associated "Get It Right" campaign has now published a detailed website, answering the most asked questions, while adding some new information as well. From a report: "After an Educational Email has been sent, there is a 20 day grace period during which time you will not receive any further emails. However, if further copyright infringement activity occurs and is detected after the 20 day grace period, you may receive another email from your ISP," the FAQ reads. Almost three weeks is significantly longer than the 7-days the U.S. equivalent has. Also good to know is that if no other piracy incidents are recorded in the future, all data is scrapped from the database after 12 months.
> basically the internet providers are snooping on all your traffic
They may or may not, but that's not where copyright violation notices come from. Specialized companies working for the copyright industry monitor public torrent swarms, and simply register the ip addresses that connect to the swarm. Then they send out letters to the ISPs who own the ip addresses, with details of the infringement, and generally the ISP just coughs up your information.