Excite@Home Australia users are up in arms over the telco’s random raids on their broadband accounts in search of pirate activity, with many saying it’s an invasion of their privacy.
Optus is the latest Australian company to launch an investigation into why banner adverts for its services have appeared on a controversial Web site that allows visitors to download potentially illegal content.
Internet service providers BigPond and iiNet have denied receiving e-mails from a software piracy watchdog warning of illegal activities by their users, although Optus and People Telecom say otherwise.
An Australian civil liberties group has frowned upon Excite@Home’s snooping tactics in order to track down pirates on its broadband service, saying if other ISPs follow in its footsteps users soon won't have the option of keeping their Internet activities to themselves.
The IIA has asked its members to "contribute" to the defence of member ISP Swiftel against litigation by the music industry.
Banner adverts for Dell and Optus were appearing on the Pirate Bay Web site earlier this week -- until ZDNet Australia published a story revealing the fact.
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