More ISP madness and lobby group loving!
I’ve just read on TorrentFreak that another UK ISP, Karoo, has been disconnecting users on request of third parties such as the BPI.
I’d not heard of Karoo before, but it is owned and operated by Kingston Communications in the Hull area. Kingston is, if I recall, run by Hull City Council and was wholly owned by them until they floated it on the LSE. According to the article on TorrentFreak and accompanying one on the BBC website, Karoo have been partaking in some quite unpleasant practises in relation to allegations of distribution of intellectual property for which the user is not the copyright holder. Whilst Virgin Media sends letters to its users on behalf of the BPI, Karoo just disconnects you because you’re deemed to be instantly guilty. What’s worse is the only way you can get your connection back is to sign a form admitting guilt, and in Hull there is only one ISP – Karoo.
Since they have been exposed for this, they have apparently changed their policy and now operate President Sarkozy’s bonkers three-strikes rule.
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