Re:Canadian bill to crack down on illegal downloads has priv...
by mycookie on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @06:58PM
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Difficult to find an ISP with a backbone that actually can follow through. I'd be interested to know if anyone in Canada has had an ISP successfully stand up to procecution.
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Re:Canadian bill to crack down on illegal downloads has priv...
by Pxtl on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @07:57PM
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I would hope that Teksavvy and other technorati-driven indie ISPs would do the legal minimum in sivulving customer info.
Re:Canadian bill to crack down on illegal downloads has priv...
by kijin on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @08:24PM
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TekSavvy is a fantastic company, but their business model is completely dependent on the big telcos who control the last mile. The UBB crisis a few years ago was a very close call, and it is bound to happen again in one form or another.
So if TekSavvy et al. try to resist the information leaking that the proposed legislation permits, I wouldn't be surprised if the MAFIAA took extralegal measures to force their hands. For example, Bell & Rogers might be persuaded to change the terms of their contract with indie ISPs the next time the contract comes up for renewal, unless the indies agree to some sort of "standard Canadian telco privacy policy" drawn up by the big telcos.
So Canadians might end up with a difficult choice: you can have privacy, or you can have 300GB traffic caps, but you can't have both.
> sivulving
I don't believe autocorrect is capable of producing words like that...