Don't pirate content on SpaceX's Starlink Internet broadband

[Chris]

Don't pirate content on SpaceX's Starlink Internet broadband

SpaceX's satellite Internet broadband service Starlink will warn its customers when they illegally download copyrighted content.

This is based on the experience of one Starlink customer who was curious to see whether the company would enforce its piracy policy.

The user - who goes by the name of substrate-97 on Reddit - posted about a warning he received from the service after many days of downloading torrents without using a VPN.

 

[backstreetboy]

Many a lifetime VPN's available.

 

[Fulcrum29]

This is the case with most internet access providers, especially where this is currently more relevant like in the USA. Just bridge your access virtually in the case you want to sail the digital seas.

 

[rvZA]

Not Interested in their Internet Broadband then, thank you.

 

[JustAsk]

This is the case with most internet access providers...

Where its passive, only acting on a dcma. This is active snooping for pirate content.

Not that i would use an over hyped satellite connection anyway.

 

[ToxicBunny]

So entirely standard procedure for an ISP in the states then...

 

[Unreal]

When they call you by your given name.
To Sam

 

[daveza]

And how do they know it's copyrighted content ?

 

[Crumbl0x]

And how do they know it's copyrighted content ?

Mostly copyright trolls in public or semi-private spaces as usual, they don't hand you indictments otherwise but it's the normal AUP at work.

 

[Easter Bunny]

if companies don't like it when people pirate, then they shouldn't use region restrictions on their stuff...

 

[ToxicBunny]

if companies don't like it when people pirate, then they shouldn't use region restrictions on their stuff...

Bit hard to use that excuse when a person in the US is pirating US stuff.

People will always pirate content. The mission for the companies should be to find a way to make the access to the content profitable for them, and cheap enough to discourage the vast majority of pirates.