Sky Broadband ordered to hand over customer data to trolls for movie piracy case
Mar10
A court order requiring Sky Broadband to hand over customer names and addresses has been granted as part of an ongoing case against the ISP in the UK. The case in question is titled TCYK LLP v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. TCKY is short for ‘The Company You Keep’, and is a well-known ‘copyright troll’ in the US. Copyright trolling is essentially the practice of monitoring file-sharing sites for possible copyright breaches and then demanding money from the offenders to avoid prosecution. TCKY has filed numerous cases in the US and it looks like they are about to start doing the…
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