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Early 2017 will see the long-awaited start of a broad UK anti-piracy effort. With help from copyright holders, ISPs will send email notifications to subscribers whose connections are allegedly used to pirate content. These "alerts" will educate copyright infringers about legal alternatives in the hope of decreasing piracy rates over time.
In an effort to curb online piracy, the movie and music industries reached an agreement with the UK’s leading ISPs to send warnings to alleged copyright infringers.
Mimicking its American counterpart, the copyright alert program will monitor the illegal file-sharing habits of UK citizens with a strong focus on repeat infringers.
The piracy alerts program is part of the larger Creative Content UK (CCUK) initiative which already introduced several anti-piracy PR campaigns, targeted at the general public as well as the classroom.
The plan to send out email alerts was first announced several years ago when we discussed it in detail, but it took some time to get everything ready. This week, a spokesperson from CCUK’s “Get it Right From a Genuine Site” campaign informed us that it will go live in first few months of 2017.
It’s likely that ISPs and copyright holders needed to fine-tune their systems to get going, but the general purpose of the campaign remains the same. This means that the focus lies on education.
While it may be quite scary for people to see that their piracy habits are being tracked and reported, the campaign stresses that they prefer the carrot over the stick.
“Educational emails will help account owners and others who use their accounts to do the right thing and get their content from legitimate sources,” the spokesperson informed us.
The alert emails will be similar to what we’ve seen in the United States, except that there are no direct punishments tied to them. They will, however, list details about the pirated files that were shared and how this can be prevented in the future.
“As well as providing links to help the customer find legal sources of content in future, the email will direct the user to further resources to answer any questions they may have about how the information was obtained and how to make sure their account is not used to infringe content again,” we were told.
“We realize that some people might not realize their account has been used to share files, for example if their children have been illicitly downloading content and then sharing it without their parent’s knowledge.”
Pointing people towards one of the many legal alternatives is a central goal, through which CCUK hopes to decrease piracy rates over time.
The “Get it Right From a Genuine Site” team is confident that they can drive some significant change. Several benchmark measurements were taken prior to the campaign, so its effectiveness can be properly measured once it’s underway.
Talks about this type of alert system have been on the agenda for almost a decade. Ironically, however, now that it’s getting close to finally being implemented, P2P file-sharing is on the decline.
Over the past years, most pirates in the UK have shifted towards direct download and streaming services. Since the copyright alerts only target P2P sharing, it will have less of an impact today than it would have a few years ago.
To what degree the new anti-piracy campaign will convert pirates into paying customers has yet to be seen. In any case, it won’t pass by unnoticed.
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26/11/2016
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maybe some useful info may help
Codehttps://www.privacytools.io/that is an interesting site, I need to have a good read of that, cheers
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I was reading through some of the more interesting news articles in the morning papers and came across this story in the Independent about the list of UK agencies that as of this week can now legally spy on our internet activities
This is the link to the main article http://www.independent.co.uk/l…oes-it-mean-a7436251.html
I will paste below the jist of the story.....
Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, including the taxman, DWP and Food Standards Agency
Internet providers will be forced to keep a full record of every site that each one of its customers have visited
Organisations including the Food Standards Agency and the Department for Work and Pensions will be able to see UK citizen's entire internet browsing history in weeks.
The Investigatory Powers Bill, which was all but passed into law this week, forces internet providers to keep a full list of Internet Connection Records (ICRs) for a year, and make them available to the government if it asks. Those ICRs effectively serve as a full list of every website that people have visited, not collecting which specific pages are visited or what's done on them but serving as a full list of every site that someone has visited and when.
And those same ICRs will be made available to a wide range of government bodies. Those include expected law enforcement organisations like the police, the military and the secret service – but also contain bodies like the Food Standards Agency, the Gambling Commission, council bodies and the Welsh Ambulance Services National Health Service Trust.
The full list of agencies that can now ask for UK citizen's browsing history, which is laid out in Schedule 4 of the bill and was collected by Chris Yiu, is below:
Metropolitan police force
City of London police force
Police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996
Police Service of Scotland
Police Service of Northern Ireland
British Transport Police
Ministry of Defence Police
Royal Navy Police
Royal Military Police
Royal Air Force Police
Security Service
Secret Intelligence Service
GCHQ
Ministry of Defence
Department of Health
Home Office
Ministry of Justice
National Crime Agency
HM Revenue & Customs
Department for Transport
Department for Work and Pensions
NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England that provide ambulance services
Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service
Competition and Markets Authority
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Department for Communities in Northern Ireland
Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland
Department of Justice in Northern Ireland
Financial Conduct Authority
Fire and rescue authorities under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004
Food Standards Agency
Food Standards Scotland
Gambling Commission
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
Health and Safety Executive
Independent Police Complaints Commissioner
Information Commissioner
NHS Business Services Authority
Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust
Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board
Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Regional Business Services Organisation
Office of Communications
Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
Police Investigations and Review Commissioner
Scottish Ambulance Service Board
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
Serious Fraud Office
Welsh Ambulance Services National Health Service TrustThe same part of the act also includes the minimum office or rank that each person within those organisations must be if they want access to the records. In the police, any viewer must be an inspector or a superintendent, for instance.
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There is an active petition opposing this, it currently has over 83,000 signatures, we require 100,000 to get the Government to respond
If you value your privacy, consider signing up here https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/173199
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19/11/2016
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19/11/2016
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If you have an account with MEGA (and a lot of us do), it may well be worth changing passwords, emails etc.....
Mega, the cloud storage site originally founded by Kim Dotcom, was hacked this week. Outsiders gained access to part of the site's infrastructure and plan to release source code, and possibly user details as well. Mega confirmed the hack but says that no user data was compromised
When the cloud-storage service Mega was launched in January 2013, it branded itself “the privacy company.”
The company’s main focus is to keep the files and other information of its users secure. However, this couldn’t prevent its own systems from being compromised.
This week Mega was hacked by outsiders who gained access to part of the company’s infrastructure. According to the hackers, they have access to roughly two gigabytes of data, which they plan to release in public.
“We have been digging into some Mega developers account and started to escalate into their systems. We plan to release all the proprietary source code for public analysis,” the hackers informed TorrentFreak.
“This is around 2 GB of source code, including the Mega Chat source code and other services.”
TorrentFreak reached out to Mega Chairman Stephen Hall, who confirmed the hack.
However, the company denies that any critical data has been compromised. Hall says that the affected systems were quickly patched and notes that the hackers did not gain access to user data.
“One of our contractors working on independent systems to maintain the public material on our blog and the help center has been compromised,” Hall told TF.
“This person did not have access to user data, neither does the person have access to critical source code and so the impact is very low.”
Mega’s chairman is confident that the user data is safe and notes that all files that are uploaded to the site are encrypted before they reach their servers.
The hackers, however, suggest that they do have some user data in hand. They might release partial user data in the future, they say, but don’t plan to release any on short notice.
The hackers will make some source code available and have already released admin login details in a Pastebin post. According to Mega, this is related to an older system that delivers blog posts, help center content, and translations.
Time will reveal the true scope and severity of the hack, and if it will affect Mega’s system or users.
Source: Torrent Freak
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Great guide this master G, should hopefully help a lot of the people creating recent threads
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13/11/2016
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06/11/2016
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06/11/2016
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Thank you as always to Rat for these
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