Summary: A recent UK government inquiry into the challenges faced by the film and high-end television industry has recently received submissions from major Hollywood studios advocating for KYC (know your customer) rules for hosting providers, similar to banking regulations to identify money laundering. If adopted, this would help them to identify people hosting pirated content.

The submissions are united in identifying the same solution to this problem: the UK must implement a ‘Know Your Business Customer’ regime to compel commercial entities (including online intermediaries) to establish the true identity of their business customers as a precondition for selling, and receiving payment for, digital services.

  • @[email protected]
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    188 months ago

    This won’t work… I’ll just host in Russia then, they don’t really care about US copyright violations

    • @[email protected]
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      168 months ago

      Same thought. Why should I even want to host in GB. The host prices are probably higher as well compared to other (geologically) EU countries.

      • @[email protected]
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        58 months ago

        I think they push this pitch all over the EU, the UK one is the only one that hit news thus far I guess. Most people host in NL/France.

      • Echo Dot
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        17 months ago

        I host in Iceland and they practically pay you to use their service it’s so cheap.

    • Fedora
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      -17 months ago

      Russia has KYC regulations as well. Mostly to censor people, but still.