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Record label abandons net piracy cases after BT deletes data

article published on 3 November, 2010

The Ministry of Sound has been forced to abandon targeting thousands of alleged music pirates in the UK after BT deleted most of the data it was seeking. Solicitors for the record label had been trying to force BT to hand over subscriber information from gathered IP addresses to identify music sharers. Those users would then be contacted and offered a chance to settle a case to avoid going to court. ... [ read the full article ]

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Interestx
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_ 		3. November 2010 @ 19:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well well well, who'd a thunk it?
BT actually grew a pair and f**ked off the extortionists.

Kudos.
I will give them some serious consideration next time I am thinking about our TV/phone/net deal.

(especially after Sky sold out their customers to those scumbags)
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biglo30
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_ 		3. November 2010 @ 19:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Interestx:
 Well well well, who'd a thunk it?
BT actually grew a pair and f**ked off the extortionists.

Kudos.
I will give them some serious consideration next time I am thinking about our TV/phone/net deal.

(especially after Sky sold out their customers to those scumbags)
+1 Even thought they were only continuing on with company policies I'm still glad this didn't bend over backwards to hand that private information over.
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phobet
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_ 		22. May 2011 @ 04:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The sad part here is that BT and their customers would have born the cost of this fishing expedition, if its data retention policies had not come into play. BT would have had to task someone to provide this information, who could have otherwise been doing something directly beneficial to the company.
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