Americans who illegally download songs and movies may soon be in for a surprise: They will be warned to stop, and if they don’t, they could find their Internet access slowing to a crawl.
After years of negotiations with Hollywood and the music industry, the nation’s top Internet providers have agreed to a systematic approach to identifying customers suspected of digital copyright infringement and then alerting them via e-mail or other means.
Under the new process, which was announced Thursday, several warnings would be issued, with progressively harsher consequences if the initial cautions were ignored.
Prove it…
I look forwards to the first case of a company getting a request to stop downloading from their photocopier
Photocopier?
What??
— I look forwards to the first case of a company getting a request to stop downloading from their photocopier
Photocopier? What are you even talking about?
If I make a leap and try to make sense of your comment the only thing I can think of is that you are commenting on copiers that allow you to scan and create PDFs of books. This is one of the ways that books are pirated.
So is that the point you were trying to make?
Book piracy I do not think is the focus of this initiative. The article discusses music and movie piracy.
You are making a leap the wrong way
I was talking about the way that the ISP’s will find the IP addresses of people bittorrenting etc and then be issuing the owners of the line that had that IP address with a caution.
Problem is that it is exceptionally easy to add in fake ip addresses into the mix so there will certainly be people who have never touched a bittorrent in their life that will be getting letters. And there will be internet-enabled devices, like photocopiers that will also be getting the blame for downloading the latest Transformers film.
Take a look at the ACS:Law issues in the UK. The software used (potentially illegally anyway in Europe) brought up so so many false positives it’s amazing.