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| Thread ID: 101453 | 2009-07-15 18:35:00 | ISPs as Internet police?? | Knownothing (7989) | Press F1 |
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| 791935 | 2009-07-16 08:38:00 | What limepile wrote more or less sums it up. Regarding the ISP's generally they dont want to do the "policing" -- if they are forced to they will, other wise they could get fined thousands.( or millions) How I suspect it "may " go is if someone like the recording Industry do what Erayd explained, they could find out who the persons IP address they are targeting belongs to (Country /ISP), the ISP would be contacted. The ISP will know who the IP address belonged to on a certain day/time ( unless you have a static IP , Like Telstra then thats real easy for them) - The Person " May " be watched as in what traffic is being down/uploaded - if its illegal activity I would think they get a warning -- the rests in the articles. Edited: as for hiding your IP address - not every one who downloads the so called illegal content knows how to do that. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 791936 | 2009-07-16 21:16:00 | Torrents sure, but what about everyone who is getting their "stuff" from the likes of rapidshare and megauploads etc? They can't do much about that, can they? Zipped and password protected... It wouldn't be very easy to prove anything. I suspect peeps will start getting banned from ISPs without proof if they were to target them. But then again, these are the guy who download the most, it's counter-productive for ISPs to attack theis biggest customers... |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 791937 | 2009-07-16 21:24:00 | But then again, these are the guy who download the most, it's counter-productive for ISPs to attack theis biggest customers... ----rapidshare and megauploads That is true, but if it becomes law, and the ISP's are forced to take action then they will have to. Other wise the ISP could possibly be fined thousands of $$$ -- If it meant losing a few customers compared to huge fines I think I know which way they would go. As for rapid share -- still easy for them, they could locate where its coming from and see what it is. It wouldn't be good if the ISP's have to do "policing" as it could mean higher costs overall ( someone has to pay for that stupid law) and as mentioned more than likely innocent people will get caught up. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 791938 | 2009-07-16 22:53:00 | www.med.govt.nz is the draft www.nzherald.co.nz Some reading... "Constantly changing IP addresses could make it extremely difficult to prove that copyright infringement has been committed by the same person multiple times." |
Tuneznz (13203) | ||
| 791939 | 2009-07-16 23:07:00 | Hmmm Interesting reading - only quickly skimmed it (at the moment) but if it happens -- this is the bit I was mentioning before ISPs are also likely to still incur additional overheads complying with Section 92A. Should these prove to be too onerous, they could be passed onto internet subscribers. Old story, even if you are doing nothing wrong, you'll end up paying for others actions. ( bit like insurance companies) Looks like someones going to be doing a lot of work to try and catch people. Regarding the changing IP address - the ISP's will have records as to who had what IP at a certain time/day, so they can look it up -- refer back to quoted section. :groan: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 791940 | 2009-07-17 03:09:00 | Yes but the thing is how does the complainant know only from knowing the ip addie that it is YOU that has already received the first notice as they are not allowed to know anything about 'you', I suppose they could query the ISP to see if there is a outstanding first notice.. | Tuneznz (13203) | ||
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