The spreadsheet of PlusNet users was sent in an unsecure format by a BT lawyer
BT has admitted it sent the personal details of more than 500 customers as an unsecured document to legal firm ACS:Law, following a court order.
The news could put BT in breach of the Data Protection Act, which requires firms to keep customers' data secure at all times.
The e-mails emerged following a security lapse at ACS:Law.
A BT official admitted "unencrypted" personal data was sent, adding it "would not happen again".
The anti-piracy madness needs to stop. The government and courts have no business demanding that private companies hand over consumer data. Why do big businesses get the right to invade privacy because they are too stupid to reinvent their aging industry model?
Those dinosaurs should adapt or die. I should not have my internet activities monitored because I am using a system readily available to me.
Time to go download some movies just to spite them.
The UK Commission is investigating this breach and will fine ACS Law and may cause it to go bankrupt and this has had the side effect of causing BT and Sky to finally step up and protect their customers details by challenging Ministry of Sound in court and winning.
I am ****ing sick and tired of Entertainment Industry trying to censor or bully individuals. They need to adapt or **** off.
In order to know that, they would have to come to my home and confiscate my computer, and I think if it gets to that point then we would be kissing a lot of other freedoms goodbye anyway. If our democracy and freedoms are going to maintain any integrity, it's not going to happen.
But sending those details should have been done securely. As with child support data being lost in the post under Labour, there's no accounting for human stupidity even in a world of remarkably high-tech' data security. Or users wanting to fill countless hard drives with pulp movies and video games every day of the year and not expect some comeback!
Kindly get your facts straight before making stupid statements.
It is their refusal to adapt which causes piracy. They have no one but themselves to blame
Though I do agree that whatever the system, it should be administered with justice, tact and common sense. If a company wants to take a downloader to court, it has to provide the evidence on its own account for individual cases, same as with other criminal cases.
"Comeback"?
The people on these boards fear it, other people who fill their hard disks fear it and, as we're talking about copyright, a lot of people who upload copyrighted video without permission to Youtube.
I get the impression they fear that as much as the possibility of wrongful arrest.
Even though I've done my own downloading in my time, I sympathise only on point two. If you nick something and get done, you can't really whine about it.
I just have sympathy for those who are receiving these threatening letters and have done nothing wrong.
And who exactly on this board 'fear it'?
The first bit of common ground between us in ages. Some nice middle-ground to be going along with there.
I don't think you're allowed to name names, but I've certainly read a good few indignant pieces about how it's a gross encroachment of civil liberties for jail terms to be increased for serial downloaders, or ISPs to close down your account if you've been caught doing it. And not a word about wrongful convictions either.
If you can back the accusation then yes.
'anti piracy madness'... 'too stupid'... sounds a bit like sour grapes to me.
(And sod it, punish me for that!)
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