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Radio Times caught up in Premier League's piracy fight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23699681

Yeah, that sorta silliness hasn't happened before or anything :roll:

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Re: Radio Times caught up in Premier League's piracy fight

The premier league should be made to pay damages to all the other websites impacted by this action.

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Thu Aug 15, 2013 7:29 am

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Re: Radio Times caught up in Premier League's piracy fight

Actually, the ISP should. It's up to them to provide a service to the other web sites within any QoS agreements in their contracts. The fact they were too lazy to check what the effects would be before just dropping the IP address isn't the EPL's fault. Having said that, orders like this should really reference companies and URLs, not IP addresses.

Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:17 am

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Re: Radio Times caught up in Premier League's piracy fight


	jonbwfc wrote: Actually, the ISP should. It's up to them to provide a service to the other web sites within any QoS agreements in their contracts. The fact they were too lazy to check what the effects would be before just dropping the IP address isn't the EPL's fault. Having said that, orders like this should really reference companies and URLs, not IP addresses.

Ah, but:


	Quote: The court specifically said that ISPs are "wholly reliant" on the rights-holders "accurately identifying" which IPs should be blocked and had "no obligation" to check them themselves.

It's up to the Premier League to determine hat is blocked. It is not up to the ISPs to check.


	Quote: BT added it was taking similar action. [Removing the block] "Under the terms of the court order to block First Row Sports, it is the Premier League's responsibility to provide BT with IP addresses to block that relate only to First Row Sports," a spokesman said.

It does seem that the ISPs should check with the Premier League first, but from the article referenced, this has been going in for a while, and as this affects sites that are not implicated in this issue, I think it's reasonable to unilaterally lift blocks. If the Premier League can't provide accurate information pertaining to the target site, then I don't see why the order should be followed. Just shows them to be bungling idiots.

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