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

Posted on March 11, 2015June 30, 2025 by Dissent

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.

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