US ISPs to begin warning customers who pirate content

It is about to get a bit more difficult to illegally download TV shows, movies or music online. A new alert system, rolling out over the next two months, will repeatedly warn and possibly punish people violating digital copyrights.

It is about to get a bit more difficult to illegally download TV shows, movies or music online.A new alert system, rolling out over the next two months, will repeatedly warn and possibly punish people violating digital copyrights. The Copyright Alert System was announced last July and has been four years in the making.If you use AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, or Verizon as your Internet service provider, you could receive the first of one of these notes starting in the next two months.To continue reading this CNN report, go to:
edition.cnn.com/2012/10/18/tech/web/copyright-alert-system/index.htmlAlso see:Internet Service Providers Are About to Crack Down on lllegal File-Sharing
Back in July 2011, a coalition of U.S. Internet providers — including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable — signed on to an agreement to crack down on online copyright infringers. Or, well, to “crack down.” The terms of the agreement emphasized user education over user punishment: Instead of cutting infringing users off from Internet services, the providers dreamed up a “six strikes” approach to infringement notification: Copyright holders would do their standard scanning for infringement. They would then cross-reference suspect IP addresses against the ISPs that control them. The copyright holders would then send a message to infringers — and, under the agreement, the ISPs would in turn commit to forwarding those messages to their customers. For up to six of those messages. The agreement’s goal, Ars Technica noted at the time, was to “educate and stop the alleged content theft in question, not to punish. No ISP wants to lose a customer or see a customer face legal trouble based on a misunderstanding, so the alert system provides every opportunity to set the record straight.”The plan, though, was never implemented. Instead, its launch kept getting postponed. And postponed. And postponed. In March, the ISP crackdown was predicted to have a July 2012 launch. And July came and went.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/internet-service-providers-are-about-to-crack-down-on-lllegal-file-sharing/263714/
mashable.com/2012/10/17/lllegal-file-sharing/

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