{"id":34459,"date":"2009-10-28T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=120915"},"modified":"2009-10-28T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T19:00:57","slug":"panic-uk-file-sharers-may-well-be-disconnected-from-isps-starting-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/34459","title":{"rendered":"Panic: UK file-sharers may well be disconnected from ISPs starting in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"toweroflondon\"<\/p>\n

The ban hammer is about to smash UK file-sharers. Legislation there is set to take effect in April<\/A> that would, as a last resort, kick illegal file-sharers off the Internet. Very exciting~!<\/p>\n

The deal is that the Government, ISPs, and intellectual property owners will work together to kindly remind you that not all forms of file-sharing are on the up and up. If they find you sharing something that you shouldn’t be, you’ll be sent a letter saying, essentially, \u201cplease stop.\u201d <\/p>\n

You’ll recall this was a hot-button issue during that Digital Britain<\/A> debate.<\/p>\n

That’s phase one. Authorities will check back one year later to see if the letters were effective in stopping illegal file-sharing. If it’s determined that the letters haven’t cut the piracy rate by 70 percent (man, set a high bar much?) then out comes the ban hammer.<\/p>\n

You’ll then receive up to two \u201cplease stop\u201d letters before you’re disconnected from your ISP.<\/p>\n

All well and good, but wait till Brussels hears about this. Appeal, appeal, delay, appeal. <\/p>\n

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The ban hammer is about to smash UK file-sharers. Legislation there is set to take effect in April that would, as a last resort, kick illegal file-sharers off the Internet. Very exciting~! The deal is that the Government, ISPs, and intellectual property owners will work together to kindly remind you that not all forms of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34459","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}