The digital music and video industries have been under increasingly scrutiny in recent weeks because of the US government’s SOPA anti-piracy legislation. Now the UK’s British Phonographic Industry (BPI) have released figures that prove piracy is to blame for all their woes… or does it? The figures released today and reported by the BBC show [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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You Are Sharing Files
I just send a letter to your ISP telling them that you are sharing files. I did not have to prove my claims because I’m in high standing. Your Internet Service Provider is now sending a DCMA takedown notice / a warning letter / a three-strikes-and-you-are-out letter to the owner of the IP that has [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Why some ISPs turn against their own customers
With the recent announcement that Britain’s largest cable Internet Service Provider Virgin Media will start warning its customers, or better the part they suspect to download files without having the proper rights to do so, that they will face prosecution if they do not stop the behavior. Virgin Media calls it educating their customers during [...]