{"id":650118,"date":"2010-02-01T11:52:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T16:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2010-02-01T11:52:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T16:52:57","slug":"innocent-grandmother-kicked-off-the-net-for-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/650118","title":{"rendered":"Innocent Grandmother Kicked Off The Net For Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 53 year-old grandmother was temporarily kicked off the Internet by her ISP after wrongful piracy allegations. Only when the press got involved was she cleared.<span id=\"more-1489\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freakbits.com\/media\/notguilty.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freakbits.com\/media\/notguilty.jpg?resize=200%2C120\" alt=\"\" title=\"notguilty\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1496\" \/><\/a>Cathi Paradiso, a customer of Qwest Communications has just been through a battle to clear her name.<\/p>\n<p>The 53 year-old grandmother had her Internet account suspended after Hollywood studios accused her of multiple copyright infringements, including downloading ZombieLand, Harry Potter and even South Park.<\/p>\n<p>Paradiso was told by Qwest that if she had one more accusation they would move from suspending her account to all-out termination, and even told her getting a new ISP would prove difficult with her record.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate to prove her innocence, Paradiso wrote to the studios and begged them to find the person who really did download the movies.<\/p>\n<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31001_3-10444879-261.html\">CNET got involved<\/a> and this pushed Qwest to have a technician investigate the case. It turned out that Paradiso&#8217;s network had been compromised and someone else was to blame.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that this accusation is the tip of a very large iceberg that will grow and grow in the months to come.<\/p>\n<p>For the thousandth time, an IP address alone does not identify an infringer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Article from: <a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\">FreakBits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 53 year-old grandmother was temporarily kicked off the Internet by her ISP after wrongful piracy allegations. Only when the press got involved was she cleared. Cathi Paradiso, a customer of Qwest Communications has just been through a battle to clear her name. The 53 year-old grandmother had her Internet account suspended after Hollywood studios [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2J7M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}