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On 26/10/12 19:18, bad apple wrote:
my understanding is that if it was piracy issues the ISP would have to send letters, though not even sure this is implemented. On porn, well 50% of net access is used for porn... And if he's downloaded a gizzilion GB, it the shutdown request would probably be from the ISP.On 26/10/12 19:00, Simon Avery wrote:try not to repeat whatever it was that might have caused the first one to drop youThis is of course the elephant in the room... if the gentleman in question knows he's in the wrong (serial pirate, reseller of dubious items/services, distributor of porn/unlicensed material, etc) then he's screwed and it's his own fault. It will get a lot more interesting if he's merely the recipient of a fraudulent DMCA claim (I know the DMCA is American, I'm not sure what our equivalent is here in the UK) or has somehow got caught up in some other fallout from our labyrinthine and hopelessly unjust legal system. We're simply going to have to depend on Tom for more information it seems. I'm not going to disagree with you that legal help is going to be expensive either - probably ruinously. And that contracts tend to be ludicrously one-sided these days as well. He's not in a good situation, that's for sure... Regards
The only sugestion I can offer is that I once made an enquiry with BT and about a month later when I got round to opening a letter (I thought is was junk mail) from o2, my ISP, discovered I was about to be disconnected in 3 days time as I was going with another provider. The enquiry to BT was just that, an enquiry (about the phone line, which o2 provide). The person at o2 said this often happens when people ask BT about services. So it could be something like this.
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