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UK: Sky Broadband will hand over customer data in movie piracy case

Posted on March 11, 2015 by pogowasright.org

Andy reports:

The UK’s second largest ISP is about to hand over the personal details of customers to a company known for demanding cash from alleged file-sharers. Sky Broadband says it will hand over the names and addresses of subscribers to TCYK LLC and warns customers that the movie company will probably ask for compensation.

[…]

Sometime during 2014 TCKY monitored BitTorrent swarms for individuals sharing their movies without permission. The company went to court to obtain what is known as a Norwich Pharmacal Order which would oblige Sky to hand over the identities of their subscribers to TCYK. TorrentFreak has now learned that an order has been granted.

Read more on Torrent Freak.

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