BT is threatening to kick users of P2P applications off its broadband service, citing copyright abuse.
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Last week, Reg reader Robert Brown received a letter from the BTBroadband abuse team accusing him of distributing copyrighted material via his account.
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.
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Aug-14-2002 17:28
Ste
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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Outer Dementia
im glad i can relay on good old ntl....
....to be down all the time!
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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
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Aug-14-2002 22:16
smh
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Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Preston, UK
Re: New offensive in War on File Sharing
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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)
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Aug-14-2002 22:36
magicsushi
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: South West England
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*
Aug-14-2002 23:41
KilldaDJ
birth.school.trance.death
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: tranceaddict wants to know your location
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!
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Aug-15-2002 01:02
jp
Retired tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Holland
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
Aug-15-2002 01:21
magicsushi
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: South West England
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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
Aug-15-2002 01:24
jon
Respect Mah Authoritah
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Leeds
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?
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Aug-15-2002 06:43
smh
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Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Preston, UK
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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.
New offensive in War on File Sharing
and then I realised that the supervisors had been monitoring calls all day *gulp*
