Ars Technica reports on Australian ISP Exetel, which indiscriminately deletes all multimedia files with given extensions - including .avi, .mp3, .wmv and .mov - from customers’ accounts every night. Jumping to the conclusion that all of your customers’ music and video files are all illegally pirated content is not only an insulting assumption, but surely also terrible business practice? Pirates will either opt-out of the nightly deletions or change ISP, while innocent customers are left wondering where grandma’s birthday video got to.

The article is here. Found via Buzz Out Loud, here.

Posted Saturday, July 7th, 2007 @ 2:04 am
Filed in business and productivity, copyright and drm, human rights, politics, science and tech

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