Having you been pirating TV shows? Your ISP is about to get in touch

If you’ve been pirating TV shows such as Game of Thrones, you’re about to hear from your Internet Service Provider.

British ISPs including Virgin Media, TalkTalk, Sky and BT are to start emailing customers when they detect that their connection has been used to pirate TV shows.

Customers whose accounts have been used will receive an ‘educational’ email about pirating content, TorrentFreak reports.

A spokesman for Creative Content UK (CCUK) said that the initiative will go live in the first few months of next year.

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CC UK said, ‘Educational emails will help account owners and others who use their accounts to do the right thing and get their content from legitimate sources,” the spokesperson said.

‘As well as providing links to help the customer find legal sources of content in future, the email will direct the user to further resources to answer any questions they may have about how the information was obtained and how to make sure their account is not used to infringe content again.’

‘We realise that some people might not realise their account has been used to share files, for example if their children have been illicitly downloading content and then sharing it without their parent’s knowledge.’