UK ISP Shows Why Kicking People Off The Internet Based On An IP ...

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 10/19/2009 - 03:45

UK ISP TalkTalk has been a strong critic of the way the recording industry has tried to turn ISPs into copyright cops in the past.

A year and a half ago it swore it would not be a copyright cop, and scolded BPI for suggesting it had any responsibility to enforce the entertainment industry's poor excuse for a business model -- while also complaining about "the most unbelievably rude letter" that BPI sent TalkTalk in demanding it do so....

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