Google Fiber is supposedly functioning as a conduit for automatic demands for cash in relation to piracy and copyright infringement.

As reported by TorrentFreak on Wednesday, the rollout of the high speed broadband service has possibly become a trigger for a rise in targeted piracy notices. As stated by the publication, such notices are being automatically forwarded to users of Google Fiber involving downloads of copyrighted content including films and music, and not contain routine cease and desist cautions but contentious demands from businesses like CEG TEK International and Rightscorp.

Google Fiber characteristics speeds that make Internet offerings that are present in the debris.

But consumers might have a shock should they make use of the service to download content from file sharing sites and torrent search engines that infringe upon intellectual copyright — or when they unwittingly permit other people to do thus, whether family members, friends or even strangers over an insecure Wifi network.

Piracy notices tend to presume that IP addresses a computer that is specified is identified on the Internet — are related to individual identities. The notices in question don’t just alarm people that their connection is being used to download pirated content; instead, the conventional takedown procedure as summarized by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is used, together with a demand for cash issued without evidence of identity of the infringer.

Rightscorp recently filed a suit against two Comcast customers who both blown off in the event the company can establish its case, multiple notices, which might lead to damage settlements and attorney fees. Demands for payment, frequently settled online, can range from $20 to several hundred dollars.

As a way to safeguard customers from this practice, several Internet providers, like Verizon, don’t forward resolution demands. Comcast forwards on the particulars of the infringement but doesn’t normally contain resolution demands.

Based on a letter Google is one such ISP that does mechanically forward resolution demands.

“Your Google Fiber service has been supposedly used to get or download infringing copyrighted content.