{"id":103015,"date":"2016-09-05T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T07:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=103015"},"modified":"2016-09-05T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T07:03:31","slug":"how-south-african-isps-actually-deal-with-piracy-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/103015-how-south-african-isps-actually-deal-with-piracy-notifications","title":{"rendered":"How South African ISPs actually deal with piracy notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have all heard the stories <\/a><\/strong>surrounding piracy notifications.<\/p>\n

Pirates\u00a0download the latest movie or TV show and suddenly the full brunt of the law is breathing down their\u00a0necks.<\/p>\n

All of these stories seem to take place overseas however (specifically in the USA and UK) – what are the chances something similar will happen in South Africa?<\/p>\n

We asked Laurie Fialkov of CyberSmart how many piracy notifications South African ISPs receive each week and how they typically respond to them.<\/p>\n

“We tend to receive a couple of piracy notifications every week.”<\/p>\n

“We pass on the notice to the customer but that’s about it. We are not the piracy police, and if a big media company wants to go after our client they must do so themselves.”<\/p>\n

“We will give them customer details in terms of Proatia if served the proper legal documents. If we get a valid take down notice we obviously comply immediately.”<\/p>\n

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This is how much trouble pirates can actually get into in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":99712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812,2],"tags":[21665,9065,2163],"class_list":["post-103015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-business","tag-notification","tag-pirate","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103215,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103015\/revisions\/103215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}