Anyone seen this in today's The Register?

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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.

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.

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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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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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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*

fuckit, just open an FTP
simple!

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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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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

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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

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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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.

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