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by mike-cardwell 4417 days ago
"They actively monitor your connection": This isn't the case is it (for this purpose at least)? It's the rights holders that contact the ISPs with a list of IPs that they claim are infringing. All the ISPs are doing is mapping IP addresses to real addresses and sending letters? The ISPs don't actively monitor for copyright infringement...
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arethuza 4417 days ago
That's how I read it - all it made me do was make a mental note to remind my teenage son to use a VPN if he downloads stuff (NB which I do not approve of, but I'm not going to monitor his internet access to the point where I could block such activity).
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kiallmacinnes 4417 days ago
It sounds to me like this agreement changes that... that's what the £750k is for - to implement the monitoring and heuristics...

I think!

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mike-cardwell 4417 days ago
No, that's definitely not the case. Read the section titled "How the system will work". It specifically says that the rights holders will be doing this.

Which is something they are already doing anyway.

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