Fox & Charter/Spectrum Agree to Clamp Down on Piracy

[Matrix]

 

Fox Corporation and Charter Communications have signed a long-term renewal of their content distribution agreement. As part of the arrangement, the companies have agreed to work together to deal with "abusive password sharing" while implementing "new business rules" to mitigate piracy.

Once upon a time, telecoms companies, Internet service providers, and content creation companies trod their own path.

 

Increasingly, however, they are becoming more reliant on each other, with the latter using the formers’ distribution capabilities to present and deliver content to the public. As a result, they are forging mutually beneficial business relationships, ones that will hopefully prove profitable for all.

 

On Monday, Fox Corporation and Charter Communications announced what they describe as a long-term renewal of a distribution agreement. It will see Charter maintaining access to Fox’s “full portfolio” of news, entertainment, and sports networks. Interestingly, Fox will also get a couple of things in return.

 

Password sharing has appeared in the news on several occasions in the past couple of years, with some content organizations framing the activity as a type of piracy. The new deal will see Charter, which operates under the Spectrum brand, collaborate with Fox to reduce it.

 

Additionally, Charter has also signed up to cooperate with Fox to mitigate piracy in general. The information released thus far is lacking in detail but the companies have reportedly agreed to implement “business rules” to address unauthorized access to content.

 

“This agreement allows continued access to all of the FOX programming for our customers and FOX viewers, but it will also amplify our mutual efforts to address piracy and abusive password sharing issues,” says Tom Montemagno, Executive Vice President, Programming Acquisition for Charter.

 

“We appreciate FOX’s desire to further collaborate as the video landscape continues to evolve.”

 

In August, Charter announced a similar-sounding deal with another entertainment industry giant.

 

“Disney and Charter have also agreed to work together on piracy mitigation,” the statement read. “The two companies will work together to implement business rules and techniques to address such issues as unauthorized access and password sharing.”

 

Just last week, Comcast became the first Internet service provider to join ACE, the global anti-piracy alliance comprising dozens of the world’s largest entertainment and distribution companies. The way things are moving, it probably won’t be the last.

 

 

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[halvgris]

let me tell you for FREE fox. if you nail password sharers

they will just get same show 1 hour on any torrent sites.

 

they should promote their service and get more subscribers

that even though it's not family it is at least paying customers.

 

this means that they will lose money on banning "family"

accounts.

[phillthedrill]

All of those people are idiots.....long live file sharing and piracy. Sorry, but the industry rakes millions from people and get fed wayyy more than the average person does.

[steven36]

9 hours ago, halvgris said:

let me tell you for FREE fox. if you nail password sharers

they will just get same show 1 hour on any torrent sites.

 

they should promote their service and get more subscribers

that even though it's not family it is at least paying customers.

 

this means that they will lose money on banning "family"

accounts.

I never even had to go to a torrent site to get free  shows  i never used  them very often  but back in 2011  i use to use a private tacker but  having to seed  was too much of a hassle with my crappy internet  it was not tell i bought a download service with safe torrenting  in 2017  witch they upload it for me and just give me  a direct link  that i messed with it again very much. in the country there talking about Charter or any other isp  int the USA will disconnect you if you you receive too much warnings so you need to buy a vpn to not get in trouble  in some areas there  not but one ISP to chose from . Every since 2011 they blogs with free TV shows and Movies with free links on file hosters  that have better pre times   than Public  P2P do  because they get there stuff from private P2P and Public P2P . It all comes out everywhere with direct download  portals  you don't have to worry about warnings and tell this day i never been forced   to have to touch a torrent for anything .  Maybe one day i may have put my vpn to use  for that but  so far it's very easy to download  a show or movie using IDM  , XDM  or JDownloader  with  free file host  and if you pay for a leecher  or find a free leecher you even have more  choices .