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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corporate plaintiff, judge, and executioner

[sittingnut]

" discontinued customer service over piracy allegations"

allegations!

a tech/media corporate decides who allegedly committed alleged crimes (alleged "piracy", alleged "hate speech", alleged "election interference", etc are just the beginning) against related or fellow tech/media corporates or supporters, and deal out de-platforming punishment too.
welcome to rule by big corporates, according to their rules and their courts.

Re:Alleged Copyright Infringement = Loss of Essent

[DontBeAMoran]

It's the first time AT&T has discontinued customer service over piracy allegations...

Maybe these people were using encryption, thus AT&T can't confirm they are not pirates, thus the allegations.

How does "if you don't have anything to hide then everything you do should be public knowledge" sound to you?