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However, representatives for each company have chimed in to offer some clarification. Basically, AT&T admits participating in a trial program related to illegal file sharing and the RIAA, but emphatically denied any plans to terminate a customers’ service – at least not at the request of the RIAA. For its part, Comcast did say it was forwarding messages on the behalf of the recording industry to customers, like other major ISPs with a DMCA notification process, but also said it has no plans to “test a so-called three-strikes-and-you’re-out policy.”
The denials underscore how careful they are when it comes to public perceptions that they might be going out of their way to help the RIAA. All in all, ISPs claim that their policies and procedures have not changed – limiting themselves to simply reminding people they can't engage in illegal activity rather than terminating service based on an allegation from a third party. Let’s just hope they stay true to their word.
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That's good to hear.
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Like when they initially denied using caps? At this point, I don't trust the ISP's.
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I wouldn't trust AT&T as far as I could throw one of their telephone poles. They have got to be one of the most untrustworthy and unscrupulous companies in the world. Remember, they also denied they were helping the Government spy on its own citizens, which turned out to be a lie. Why should we think any better of them now? Cable Companies have their own little monopolies with their deals with individual municipalities, and the government turns a blind eye to the obvious anti-trust issues and elimination of any benifit of competition for your business. And AT&T is busy buying up all the loose ends it lost in the last Monopoly breakup. Thats right, MA BELL is back boys, and ready to take on the world market.
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Couldn't have said it better myself Appzalien.
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