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Old 21-07-2006, 13:47   #57
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Re: Sky Broadband
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Originally Posted by grubbymitts
I'm quite concerned that there are no in-depth terms and conditions on the Sky Broadband site. For all we know the first time you download an MP3/movie that you may not have the...ahem...right to, then they send around Inspector Knacker. This is Rupert "The Dirty Digger" Murdoch's business we're talking about here - I doubt he looks kindly on someone illegally downloading 20th Century Fox material via his own ISP.

As a Sky subscriber and a stand alone NTL cable subscriber I am very tempted (even if I can only get 2mb), but I would prefer to know what their T&Cs are (not that I ever download anything other than linux distros of course)
Actively monitoring and screening the content that users download is a bad idea as it gives a reasonable case to being sued for what users do, after all if you can monitor / screen it for your own purposes why can't you do this for everyone?

That's a bit 'tin foil hat' like, the AOL ISP is owned by AOL Time Warner and I seriously doubt that AOL subscribers are monitored to see if they are downloading Warner Bros films.

ISPs may need to keep records of what their users do but what you describe is extremely stupid, it would also need a lot of expensive hardware which isn't actually there. See the UKOnline forums on ADSLGuide, hardware that can 'peek' into traffic is on the network but only on the 'offnet' BT IPStream service and as far as I can see reading it no-one gets into trouble over what they download, just how much.
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