Time Warner will not turn in info of alleged pirates

I must say Time Warner did show some balls here even despite well the money excuse, I am surprised they said no. Again Kudos to Time Warner

Originally posted by Tristan_2:

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I must say Time Warner did show some balls here even despite well the money excuse, I am surprised they said no. Again Kudos to Time Warner

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Hah, TWC's customer service even gives the feds the bird! Gotta love it. So bad even the government can't get through to them!

Originally posted by SProdigy:

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Hah, TWC's customer service even gives the feds the bird! Gotta love it. So bad even the government can't get through to them!

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At least TWC has it's priorities in order. We should be going after REAL criminals like terrorists and not wasting time and tax dollars on persecuting, I mean prosecuting kids, teenagers and young adults with a computer and an internet connection.

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each of which takes "immediate priority" over copyright infringement cases

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These lookup requests involve everything from suicide threats to child abduction to terrorist activity," each of which takes "immediate priority" over copyright infringement cases.

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This might be the first time that a shortage of employees has been given as the reason for better service.

How about all ISPs charge 50$ per IP when they turn over data? This way only real crimes will be dealt and they can't spam lawsuits.

All I can say is....Thank You Time Warner!!

Originally posted by ZippyDSM:

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How about all ISPs charge 50$ per IP when they turn over data? This way only real crimes will be dealt and they can't spam lawsuits.

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These lookup requests involve everything from suicide threats to child abduction to terrorist activity," each of which takes "immediate priority" over copyright infringement cases.

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The only reason Time Warner looks those up is because they have to; they could get a serious lawsuit against them if they refused to help, and someone got hurt/killed. Rest assured, they do not do it out of charity.

Originally posted by KillerBug:

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The only reason Time Warner looks those up is because they have to; they could get a serious lawsuit against them if they refused to help, and someone got hurt/killed. Rest assured, they do not do it out of charity.

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Originally posted by bomber991:

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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:

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How about all ISPs charge 50$ per IP when they turn over data? This way only real crimes will be dealt and they can't spam lawsuits.

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No, they should charge $100-$200 for all lookups except for the ones made by law enforcement. They're a business and they gotta make money.

Anyways, at $100-$200 per lookup, those record companies would have to dish out $80,000 to $160,000 for these 800 names they want. Of course if all 800 of those people settle for $2k a piece then the record companies would get their money back.

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"The ISP says it would cost them about $45 USD each to send out the info on all the requests."
Where do they get $45 from? Surely the employee would be getting minimum wadge, so around $6 an hour, and surely they could process several in an hour. There's the cost of paper, which is less then $1 a paper I would guess. Figure electricity and network costs, and that still doesn't add up to $45 per request. We're talking a few dollars a day give or take for network costs assuming they would need internet access to pull up a customers info. Electricity would be a few dollars a day as well. So all things considered I ca;t see where $45 comes from. Not that I am disappointed by Time Warner fighting this, but I fail to see where they can get a figure like this.

Originally posted by Xplorer4:

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Where do they get $45 from?

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Originally posted by Xplorer4:

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"The ISP says it would cost them about $45 USD each to send out the info on all the requests."
Where do they get $45 from? Surely the employee would be getting minimum wadge, so around $6 an hour, and surely they could process several in an hour. There's the cost of paper, which is less then $1 a paper I would guess. Figure electricity and network costs, and that still doesn't add up to $45 per request. We're talking a few dollars a day give or take for network costs assuming they would need internet access to pull up a customers info. Electricity would be a few dollars a day as well. So all things considered I ca;t see where $45 comes from. Not that I am disappointed by Time Warner fighting this, but I fail to see where they can get a figure like this.

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im sure time warner will hand over the information for the right amount of money.

Originally posted by DVDBack23:

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Originally posted by Xplorer4:

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"The ISP says it would cost them about $45 USD each to send out the info on all the requests."
Where do they get $45 from? Surely the employee would be getting minimum wadge, so around $6 an hour, and surely they could process several in an hour. There's the cost of paper, which is less then $1 a paper I would guess. Figure electricity and network costs, and that still doesn't add up to $45 per request. We're talking a few dollars a day give or take for network costs assuming they would need internet access to pull up a customers info. Electricity would be a few dollars a day as well. So all things considered I ca;t see where $45 comes from. Not that I am disappointed by Time Warner fighting this, but I fail to see where they can get a figure like this.

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Remember, there are only 4 of them, and no way are they getting paid minimum wage (which is over $7, btw). Likely they are paid $10-15 an hour, and include in Internet, paper costs, etc, as you noted.

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It is the loss of business. They are probably getting over $100 per customer per month TV and cable. Comcast also refused, after first agreeing to send letters out then refusing to saying whoever was not going to pay them enough to do it. I don't have TM but I hear they do their own policing. Warning you and/or suspending you if you torrent too much. Losing 2K of customers would be a killer for them. Of course the slime balls don't want to fork over even $45! so that they can lose over $1000 per customer per year.

The COST is POINT "dumbasses" its the principle. TW just don't wanna do it. That's all.

Kudos to TimeWarner for standing to the "EVIL EMPIRE and the terrorist group RIAA".