It's the end of the internets as we know it

[DJ-Daz]

Ofcom has today published three documents relating to its duties to address online copyright infringement under the Digital Economy Act 2010.

The first is a draft code, under which ISPs would notify subscribers of allegations that their account has been used to infringe copyright. The second is a short statutory consultation on the draft code, setting out reasons for our proposals. The consultation closes on 26 July 2012, and both documents are published together here.

The third document is a consultation on the sharing of costs incurred by the scheme. This consultation closes on 18 September 2012, and can be found here.

There is also a news release summarising these publications, available here.

How the code will work

The code will initially cover ISPs with more than 400,000 broadband-enabled fixed lines – currently BT, Everything Everywhere, O2, Sky, TalkTalk Group and Virgin Media.

If a customer receives three letters or more within a 12-month period, anonymous information may be provided on request to copyright owners showing them which infringement reports are linked to that customer’s account. The copyright owner may then seek a court order requiring the ISP to reveal the identity of the customer, with a view to taking legal action for infringement under the Copyright Designs and Patent Act 1988.

Copyright owners can already seek such court orders under existing law, but the Code is designed to enable them to focus legal action on the most persistent alleged infringers.

[Symonator]

already a law in america u know, not long for uk to follow like the fags the goverment is becoming.

I have had a copyright letter before for downloading "superman returns" - which was a pretty gash film too by the way.

Anyways the letters arefunny as fuck they give you times, dates and where you got the file, but they only take this action if you share the stuff, so seeding or uploading whilst downloading is the problem usually.
The letter also says stuff like this:

Virgin Media has received a notification by a copyright owner, or its authorized
agent, reporting an alleged infringement of one or more copyrighted works made
on or over Virgin's High-Speed Internet service (the 'Service'). The copyright
owner has identified the Internet Protocol ('IP') address associated with your
Service account at the time as the source of the infringing works. The works
identified by the copyright owner in its notification are listed below. Virgin
reminds you that use of the Service (or any part of the Service) in any manner
that constitutes an infringement of any copyrighted work is a violation of
Virgins's Acceptable Use Policy and may result in the suspension or termination
of your Service account.

Copyright work(s) identified in the notification of claimed infringement:

Title: [ xxxxxxxxx ]

Infringement Source: [ xxxxxx ]
Initial Infringement Timestamp: [ xxxxxxxxx ]
Recent Infringement Timestamp: [ xxxxxxxxx ]
Infringer Username: [ xxxxxxxxx ]
Infringing Filename: [ xxxxxxxxx ]
Infringing File size: [ xxxxxxxxx ]
Infringers IP Address: [ xxxxxxxxx ]
Infringers DNS Name: [ xxxxxxxxx ]
Infringing URL: [ xxxxxxxxx ]

you know how to get round it right?
peer guardian or if you share files in the future use a .zip or .rar pmsl.

[DJ-Daz]

I dont think it's a big deal, not for me at least.
I turn on encryption and use peerguardian 2.

[theENIGMATRON]

I dont use torrents
I download from HTTP, with Rarred Passworded files

So bring it on lol