UK ISP Disconnects Customers For File Sharing

[wraggster]

Karoo, an ISP in Hull, in the UK, is disconnecting subscribers without warning if they file-share, or are even suspected of file-sharing. Karoo is the only ISP in the area. Copyright owners are working with the ISP helping them identify and report suspected filesharers using their services. In order to get service restored, subscribers have to go to Karoo's office and sign a form admitting guilt and promising not to do it again. The article states that some subscribers have had their access cut off for more than two years.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07...r-File-Sharing

[VampDude]

The whole of their users will be disconnected by the sounds of that, because at least once in everyone's internet history they have shared a file even if it's not copyrighted material.

[Triv1um]

Not a good move.

Lets see how quickly the business is in the $#@!.