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Sky tonight suspended all co-operation with an anti-piracy law firm after thousands of its customers` personal details appeared on a list of people accused of illegally sharing adult films online. Any Sky broadband users here? :)


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you can thank /b/ for this. Or not, if yours were some of the details that were leaked.

never p*** off anonymous

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In related news:

BT has admitted it sent the personal details of more than 500 customers as an unsecured document to legal firm ACS:Law, following a court order.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11434809

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It gets worse, theres a website you can view people in your area:

http://www.ueof.co.uk/acslaw/postcode.php

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How does ACS Law get away with this in the first place?  I can only assume that being a law firm they`re exempt from what would get us mere mortals up on charges of blackmail and demanding money with menaces.

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It gets worse, theres a website you can view people in your area:
Not any more.

May have been overloaded, or taken down now. It even linked to google maps so you could see roughly where the people where, and yes it listed their full names.


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I can only assume that being a law firm they`re exempt from what would get us mere mortals up on charges of blackmail and demanding money with menaces.

`nail` and `head` there, m`boy

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A London law firm has pledged to continue to target file sharers, despite controversy surrounding the acquisition and care of users` data.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11443861

I hope whoever they are working for never recovers from the bad publicity this is ultimately going to generate. I also hope someone brings them to account for letting such confidential information leak out like they did.


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Sorry to join this so late...

Are Sky/BT targetting torrent and P2P users...and can they look at Newgroup users too?

I find it amazing that considerable resource can be put into chasing this type of stuff, but malicious software seems to be flowing through the internet untouched.
Maybe lots of effort goes into to hunting down the virus spreaders too, but it doesn`t seem like there is.

(I`m not with Sky for broadband btw)

That website is up again too, this whole thing is disgusting)

This item was edited on Friday, 1st October 2010, 10:41