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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.
20 days to set up a proxy? That's about right.
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> 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.
Cough, cough, upload not download. Download what ever, just do not upload, especially not target protocols or ips. You are not required to personally ensure that every website you can possibly connect is not uploading copyrighted content to you that they do not have licence to, that is their responsibility and not yours. Keep in mind every paragraph of writing, every picture, every graphic as well as of course sound and video recording is all copyrighted, except that which is already in the public domain. So you are not required to keep track of the trillions of pieces of content on the internet to track content licensing arrangements.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
The internet providers just opened themselves up to being sued for aiding and abetting the copyright cartels Everyone knows how many fake claims these copyright cartels make on a Youtube upload, they get no repercussions for their claims, but you have to deal with their lies. We also know these corporations have no problem in stealing YOUR content, then telling you to get lost. Time to abolish copyright law and stop this protectionist cartel.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
If you actually cared about your arguments you'd post them here instead of just using them as a reason to whore your channel.