It looks like the RIAA is trying to extend it’s “long arm of justice” to Australia again. Yet these
ISPs are turning their heads the other way. Will the RIAA’s “war on consumers” every end?
From ZDNet.Australia
Local Internet service providers (ISPs) have doused reported attempts by a US digital copyright solutions company to force them to terminate the Internet contracts of customers suspected of breaching copyright rules.
MediaForce, a US digital copyright solutions company claiming to act on behalf of Warner Bros, has reportedly sent a letter to at least one Australian ISP listing a series of IP addresses it claims have been used to illegally access copyrighted material. The letter goes on to request the user of the IP addresses be denied access, and that their account be terminated.
“Since you own this IP address, we request that you immediately do the following: 1) Disable access to the individual who has engaged in the conduct described above; and 2) Terminate any and all accounts that this individual has through you,” read the letter, a copy of which has been posted on broadband forum site Whirlpool.
None of the five ISPs contacted by ZDNet Australia claimed to have received the letter, but most indicated they would be unlikely to comply with the requests in the letter if they did receive one.
“We wouldn’t act on it because Warner Bros is not a government body that would act on those things,” Iain McKimm, Pacific Internet’s director of technology and strategy told ZDNet Australia . “We can’t act as police, we have to act on what the guidelines are.”
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