{"id":296783,"date":"2010-02-09T06:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2010-02-09T06:06:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:06:51","slug":"isp-stops-suspending-accounts-on-copyright-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/296783","title":{"rendered":"ISP Stops Suspending Accounts On Copyright Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following iiNet&#8217;s huge win over anti-piracy group AFACT, Aussie ISP Exetel has taken steps to soften its copyright infringement notice procedures and will no longer suspend accounts on mere accusations.<span id=\"more-1513\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/media\/exetel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/media\/exetel.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"exetel\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1517\" \/><\/a>On February 4th, Australian Internet service provider iiNet <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/movie-studios-lose-landmark-case-against-aussie-isp-100204\/\">won its court battle<\/a> against several Hollywood studios.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Dennis Cowdroy announced that iiNet was not responsible for the infringements of its subscribers when they shared copyright material using BitTorrent.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of this decision, ISP Exetel says it will modify long-standing procedures it has in place to forward infringement notices to its customers on behalf of copyright holders.<\/p>\n<p>Previously customer access to the Internet was temporarily blocked while they either denied the infringement allegations or apologized to rights holders. Shortly this will change. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com.au\/news\/communications\/soa\/Exetel-changes-piracy-policy-\/0,130061791,339300906,00.htm?omnRef=1337\">email<\/a> to customers the company said;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to send any infringement notices we receive in the future, but before the end of February we will not require the user to acknowledge receipt of it nor will we temporarily block the customer&#8217;s internet access.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Subject to final legal advice, and re-coding time and testing, we will in future simply send the infringement notice to the registered &#8216;owner&#8217; of the service,&#8221; the company added.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the iiNet decision has clarified the position and responsibilities of ISPs, but not necessarily in the direction that copyright holders would&#8217;ve liked.<\/p>\n<p>Article from: <a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\">FreakBits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following iiNet&#8217;s huge win over anti-piracy group AFACT, Aussie ISP Exetel has taken steps to soften its copyright infringement notice procedures and will no longer suspend accounts on mere accusations. On February 4th, Australian Internet service provider iiNet won its court battle against several Hollywood studios. Justice Dennis Cowdroy announced that iiNet was not responsible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}