ISP Arbitrarily Deletes Customers' Media Files

BoingBoing reported that a nutty Australian DSL Provider is allegedly running a program each night that automatically deletes ALL multimedia files from their customer's personal web pages that the ISP provides with the service.

Reportedly all mp3, mpg, mpeg, avi, wma files are deleted regardless if the files contain copyrighted content or not. Potentially home movies and other completely innocent files could be lost forever.

"Based on the MIPI's actions in March 2005 aganst another ISP (People Telecom) and the actual finding guilty of a second ISP in July 2005 (ComCen), Exetel now believe there is a need to take more direct and pro-active action to monitor content stored on publicly accessible servers under its control."

Geez and I thought AT&T was being ridiculous.

[ISP nukes all hosted audio and video files every night]