Re:AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown
by autoexec on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @05:34PM
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They might feel it's worth it to lose that money in the short term if they can make an example out of pirates and try to establish account termination for unproven allegations of infringement as an industry standard practice. Long term it isn't smart but there are media industry mouthpieces claiming they will be losing $52 billion to internet piracy by 2022. How many DSL customers will they be willing to drop if they think it'll help stop the billions their parent companies are "losing" annually.
Re:AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown
by ashleyn on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @08:27PM
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A lot more incentive now that they're the copyright owner for many TimeWarner productions. It just all becomes part of the big math problem.
Re:AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown
by londons_explore on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:26AM
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It's in AT&T's interest to cut off 'unlimited' users who use a large proportion of their network bandwidth.
Using copyright claims to do that sounds like a smart plan.
FTA: The bottom line: Very few copyright infringers ever get booted from their broadband provider, pointing to the severity of these cases and the number of steps at which the customer is told they are violating copyright before they are cut off from AT&T's service. Copyright infringers are often illegally pirating hundreds of hours of stolen content, not a song or two from their favorite band.