piracy? lets solve it with a letter!

BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media will send "educational" letters to customers believed to be downloading illegally.
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I'm going to setup several linux torrents that have also been distributed over public trackers that fall under the "not allowed to talk about on OCUK" bracket and see how long it takes until I get a warning letter.
 
This is done through a variety of methods, including "listening in" to traffic on Bittorrent networks - a common practice.
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How is this legal?

Also LOL to the whole thing, obviously.
 
good news that the isp's haven't rolled over to the ridiculous demands of the entertainment industry - its only copy-write infringement, get over it.
 
TwsT said:
This is illegal and could result in a criminal conviction in the future.
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No, it can't.

Copyright law is a civil and not criminal matter. The worst that can happen is you can get sued.

Only if you reproduce and sell copyrighted works does it become a criminal offence.
 
I read that article earler and could understand what they were actually doing?

So its just letters? 4 points and then we'll forget about you?

Ridiculous.
 
What ever my parents would have lost their **** and I'm sure many kids parents will.

Asides Laws will change criminal convictions will occur We won't win this battle in the end the only thing we can hope for is more companies embrace streaming and the fact the end user wants to watch things on their time.
 
The streaming industry needs monopolies, not like "Use these 4 video streaming services and still miss out on shows" model.

Like Cinema, what real big film doesn't get put to Cineworld so that I can enjoy it on my Cineworld card?
 
mrbell1984 said:
People should just stream. It's cheap enough these days.
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To get access to all the content I would like to watch i'd need

Sky Now TV Sub
Netflix Sub
Amazon Prime Sub
Unblock-us Sub
Router capable of using DNS proxy (or DD-WRT)

If for some reason, in a paticular month I don't get round to watching anything.....I still have to pay.

Then I do not find out well enough in advance that the tv show I have just started, will be removed due to the company not renewing their licence.

To be honest, it's easier just to pirate it. How will my ISP know I am downloading illegally from the dutch SSL usenet server I use, which has been encrypted at source, double compressed and passworded :confused:
 
Lol,

This is more or less just an exercise at graphing out actual numbers which they will likely user later on for whatever they have planned after this all finishes.

Also:

A maximum of four alerts - by either email or physical letter - can be sent to an individual customer account. Language will "escalate in severity" - but will not contain threats or talk of consequences for the accused users
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The final letter will probably read:

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If Netflix actually had recent stuff and he producers weren't so stupid in allowing netflix to use the stuff then we wouldn't need torrents
 
TwsT said:
What ever my parents would have lost their **** and I'm sure many kids parents will.

Asides Laws will change criminal convictions will occur We won't win this battle in the end the only thing we can hope for is more companies embrace streaming and the fact the end user wants to watch things on their time.
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i think you pretty much have it right, i dont download really a lot of stuff illegally now because of netflix and such, but i.e. game of thrones i am unable to catch in on a monday night so the only way i can watch it is by streaming it whereas if i were in america i could watch it on hbo
 
I'm not even convinced piracy is that large an issue these days, I frequent a forum used to discuss scene releases and the daily deals thread on their is amazingly active as well as the cdkey trading thread.
most of them buy games these days as long as they aren't polished turds.

in my experience these days the biggest piracy is TV shows and movies but there's evidence to suggest these people go out and buy what they like anyway and I see living proof of that daily.

people tend to buy what they can afford as well, I don't see many people pirating games who can afford to buy them unless they do it to see if the game is good first.
maybe if they released demos like the 90s people wouldn't do it so much as attitudes have obviously changed over the years.
 
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I'm with an ISP that is not a mainstream one, so they don't block any sites, and I will not get a letter for downloading, plus I use encryption
 
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