AT&T To Cut Off Some Customers' Service in Piracy Crackdown (axios.com)

AT&T will alert a little more than a dozen customers within the next week or so that their service will be terminated due to copyright infringement, news outlet Axios reported, citing sources familiar with its plans. From the report: It's the first time AT&T has discontinued customer service over piracy allegations since having shaped its own piracy policies last year, which is significant given it just became one of America's major media companies. AT&T owns a content network after its purchase of Time Warner earlier this year, an entity now called WarnerMedia. Content networks are typically responsible for issuing these types of allegations to internet service providers (ISPs) for them to address with their customers.

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Considering the atrocious options in the USA ..

[AbRASiON]

This is pretty bad. A lot of areas seem to be only serviced by one provider, it's kinda terrible.

Time for more VPN use.

Re:Cheap cheezy VPNs

[Anonymous Coward]

Use of an unlicensed (i.e. not paid for, and without a back door for monitoring; possibly, simply one that's not work-related and not sold by the ISP) VPN will be considered evidence of piracy in the not too distant future.