RE: Downloading of © content for personal use

> ...a few months ago, my ISP shut me down because a
> publishing company had complained ...

> No questions asked, my ISP blew my connection out of
> the water, and THEN called me to inform me they had
> done so. It was only after I signed a note saying that
> I'd take it down that they let me back on. ...

This is a little off-topic, but you really should get yourself a new ISP. Suspend first, notify later is a really crappy policy. Some ISPs are more reasonable than yours seems to be. If you don't mind, why not tell us who it is, so we can avoid them like the plague. Unless, of course, they sue perlmonks for libel. :/

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RE: RE: Downloading of ? content for personal use by DaveHowe (Initiate) on Sep 02, 2000 at 13:41 UTC
This is a little off-topic, but you really should get yourself a new ISP. Suspend first, notify later is a really crappy policy. Unfortunately, it is pretty standard in .uk - there is a precident that even leaving news items on your news spooler that someone has sent a legal notification in on (for libel in this case) that weren't even posted from your isp is grounds for the complainant to sue the ISP for bignums (presumably on the basis that many offenders are either untracable or judgement-proof). There was a reasonably recent case where an online newsletter website was shut down - and in order to get it back the content providers were told they needed a signed statement from their lawyer that no postings libelous to the complainant would ever be posted (note, there had been no such postings to date, the complainant sent in a nasty-gram on the basis they might write something he didn't like in the future. Add this to the RIP bill and BT's heel-dragging over Flatrate, and you don't have to wonder why England isn't going to be the "ideal home for ecommerce" the government used as an election platfor	[reply]
RE (tilly) 3: Downloading of ? content for personal use by tilly (Archbishop) on Sep 02, 2000 at 15:51 UTC
Ah yes, Laurence Godfrey vs Demon. Here is the story. And a legal analysis. Anyone who wants can go back to an old (circa 1993) FAQ to get a sense of what he was like. (Search for his name.)	[reply]
RE: RE: Downloading of © content for personal use by Adam (Vicar) on Sep 02, 2000 at 03:41 UTC
Its not libel if its true. Besides which, I don't think companies get the same protection from libel as ordinary folk... something about being in the public arena.	[reply]
RE: RE: Downloading of © content for personal use by bastard (Hermit) on Sep 04, 2000 at 01:57 UTC
Something like this happened to me a few years back. With a few firm words about the legal implications of their actions they restored my access with credit for the lost days. Needless to say I dropped icubed.com as a service provider at the end of that month. (and never looked back)	[reply]