New offensive in War on File Sharing

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Posted by snokrash on Aug-14-2002 17:28:

New offensive in War on File Sharing

Anyone seen this in today's The Register?

quote:
BT is threatening to kick users of P2P applications off its broadband service, citing copyright abuse.

quote:
Last week, Reg reader Robert Brown received a letter from the BTBroadband abuse team accusing him of distributing copyrighted material via his account.

The full article is here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26674.html

Mr Brown seems to have been using KaZaA.

OK, this is BT Openwound, but how long before the other ISPs follow? There are no doubt many BTO customers here at TA, has anyone had similar experiences?

It's hard to tell where BTO are just rolling over and letting the EU fuck them with their Corporate Welfare policies (main beneficiaries being the Recording Industry Assholes of America and their European counterparts) or whether they find it a lovely way to reduce bandwidth consumption while being able to say "don't blame us, it's the law!".

A bit of both probably.

Posted by Ste on Aug-14-2002 17:57:

im glad i can relay on good old ntl....

....to be down all the time!

Posted by smh on Aug-14-2002 19:52:

Well im on 56k so i aint arsed.

Posted by Nell on Aug-14-2002 22:16:

quote:
Originally posted by dj_s_harrison
Well im on 56k so i aint arsed.

what that got to do with the price of apples?

its your isp, not your conenction

Posted by smh on Aug-14-2002 22:36:

Re: New offensive in War on File Sharing

quote:
Originally posted by snokrash
BT is threatening to kick users of P2P applications off its broadband service, citing copyright abuse

broadband not 56k, anyway i aint even with btow (anymore)

Posted by magicsushi on Aug-14-2002 23:41:

I'm temping at BTOW at the moment, and some guy who called today had, had his account ceased because of distributing copyright material. I didn't relaise it covered things like MP3s. Anyway we had a good laugh on the phone about how much BTOW suck and then I realised that the supervisors had been monitoring calls all day *gulp*

Posted by KilldaDJ on Aug-15-2002 00:24:

fuckit, just open an FTP
simple!

Posted by smh on Aug-15-2002 01:02:

About 2week ago BTOW ceased our account because we (or i) wer abusing the service, i though wtf theyve bin logging our account. I asked why n its because we had been using the net for more than 12hr's a day!

Posted by jp on Aug-15-2002 01:21:

we've got >40gig monthly traffic on our cable connection... they do not quite like that (upc holland)

getting warnings etc etc

fuck them, it is suppost to be flatrate

Posted by magicsushi on Aug-15-2002 01:24:

quote:
Originally posted by dj_s_harrison
About 2week ago BTOW ceased our account because we (or i) wer abusing the service, i though wtf theyve bin logging our account. I asked why n its because we had been using the net for more than 12hr's a day!

Yeah we get shitloads of calls from people who've had their account ceased because of that. It's an anytime account, except you can't use it whenever you like Bullshit ain't it

Posted by jon on Aug-15-2002 06:43:

i think a similar thign happend to luke, i just hope that ntl dont do the gay 12 hour rule as my 2 housemates both use the same conection and beetween us id say we are online for at least 12 hours a day.

and are the bt broadband bit stopping these p2p programs becasue of copyright issuses or is their network not being able to cope with all the bandwidth?

Posted by smh on Aug-15-2002 09:12:

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Originally posted by magicsushi

Yeah we get shitloads of calls from people who've had their account ceased because of that. It's an anytime account, except you can't use it whenever you like Bullshit ain't it

They take the piss, im with freeserve now and i aint ad no problems so far.

Posted by mentalbarter on Aug-15-2002 10:40:

I download stuff at uni, so unless they wanna shut down the whole university server they aint gonna stop me.

Posted by Ian on Aug-15-2002 10:44:

who gives a fuck, they're quick enough to charge 30 quid a month for it, If they try kicking me off I'm gonna send some serious abuse their way & Demand 2 years worth of money plus the installation fee back, I think it's just another example of the music labels & so on trying to waft a big stick over us and control us, but if I'm not mistaken we live in a free world so they can forget trying to force us to resort to buying their wank cds

Posted by goldenarmZ on Aug-15-2002 12:12:

hahaha

*points and laughs at all the people gullible enough to sign up with BTOW in the first place!*

lol.. this is BT we're talking about... you must've known it'd all go tits up in one way or another

Posted by DJ-Ande on Aug-16-2002 00:01:

ntl better not get a bad ass attitude!!!

Posted by Rostros on Aug-17-2002 11:23:

It will never happen , BTO can't stop , P2P , P2P is a just connection to a server ffs, they can't block every I.P you connect to ,

also why do people get Broadband so they can download albums in the first place if they do manage to stop p2p , they will loose most of there customers.

Posted by torontotrance on Aug-17-2002 19:08:

Canadian isp's are capping the amount of bandwidth that you can use. I doubt everything that ISP's are doing......will stop mp3's. RIAA can't stop it.....it's worldwide now.......i don't imagine them stopping it. We would just find another way to do it....lamers.