
Giant Google has a service that offers 1 gigabit per second internet connection in the United States, Google Fiber. The service, which costs something between US$ 70 monthly, adopted an unusual practice among internet operators in the last days.
Users have warned that they are receiving fines and notices of suspension of the service for downloading pirate content. Exactly. Whenever a Google Fiber customer downloads some pirated content, the company notifys it with a fine and a warning that the service will be suspended if downloads continue.
According to some users, alerts arrive by email and fines have varied values, depending on the content, but they can reach US$ 300.

In practice, the fine is similar to those in which some company that produces content identifies the user who is illegally downloading their product. In this case, the fine is passed to the user. However, current communication companies refuse to pass on the notification to their users, after all, they are their clients and their conduct in the network is not their concern, unless there is a court order to investigate.
The question is: Why would Google Fiber be doing this? Being that the company itself has always left in favor of its users and not the big media companies.
With information from TorrentFreak


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