Internet providers to begin warning customers who pirate content

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-10-21 20:54

  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.
  [/B[B]]The Internet provider is delivering the message, but the legwork is being done by the copyright owners, which will monitor peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent.
  They use a service called MarkMonitor, which uses a combination of people and automated systems to spot illegal downloading. It will collect the IP addresses of offenders, but no personal information. The IP addresses are turned over to the Internet providers, which will match up the address with the right customer and send the notification.
  [B]The warning system is described as a graduated response. First the Internet provider will let the customer know that their Internet connection is being used do download content illegally. The note will include information to steer them away from their life of crime, including tips on how they can download content legally.
  [/B]There will also be tips on securing Internet connections, just in case you were unaware that your neighbor was downloading season three of "Dexter" using your unprotected wireless network.
  "The progressive series of alerts is designed to make consumers aware of activity that has occurred using their Internet accounts, educate them on how they can prevent such activity from happening again," the CCI said in its announcement today.
  After the educational phase, the customers will be asked to acknowledge that they received the warning. If they continue to download content illegally, the alerts will threaten mild punishments, such as forcing the copyright violator to read "educational materials," or throttling their Internet connection so that it is slow, making it harder to download large files.
  Today's announcement claims that terminating the Internet service is not one of the options.
  If a customer feels they are being wrongly accused, they can ask for a review, which will cost them $35 according to the Verge.
  The entire system will be overseen by an organization called the Center for Copyright Information, which includes content owners, such as the Motion Picture Association of America and Recording Industry Association of America, as well as individual members including Disney, Sony Pictures, Fox, EMI and Universal.
  Each ISP will have a slightly different version of the system.

  
  
  http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/18/tech/web/copyright-alert-system/index.html?ctp=1
  
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• MareneCorp wrote on 2012-10-21 20:58
  Just another way of the government telling you that they can fuck with you any time they want, as long as you put up with it.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-10-21 21:20
  *sigh*
  The internet is a free place and should remain free. It's not a place the gouvernement and whatnot should butin..
• Sebbies wrote on 2012-10-21 21:35
  The days where I don't have to pay to pirate will soon be over. This is a good thing, though.
• paladin wrote on 2012-10-21 22:27

  Quote from Sebbies;967072:

  The days where I don't have to pay to pirate will soon be over. This is a good thing, though.

  
  
  You make no sense
  when does bittoreent or ddl cost you money?
  
  And this will only serve to deter some people
  Theres plenty of ways around this
  once their music sales stagnent or drop maybe they will think again
  Those companies better be paying for this themselves
  if their using tax payer money they can shove off
• Mentosftw wrote on 2012-10-21 22:28
  I'm glad I live in Canada.
  
  I hope it never reaches us.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-10-21 22:32

  Quote from Mentosftw;967096:

  I'm glad I live in Canada.
  
  I hope it never reaches us.

  
  
  Sadly the world isn't that simple.
  
  If the internet get messed up in the USA, it will have some negative drawback on Canada's internet as well.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-10-21 22:34

  Quote from Mentosftw;967096:

  I'm glad I live in Canada.
  
  I hope it never reaches us.

  
  
  In the cat's opinion, the Canadian government has the worst regulation on Internet
  because of the terrible data caps and prices
• Aubog007 wrote on 2012-10-21 22:36
  Considering i do not knowingly pirate games anymore since i have a decent job. I think this is fair.
  
  Unless i am missing some fundamental concept that more than likely does not appeal to me.
  
  
  
  Here i will make a case. I did not grow up on the internet. I was introduced to it when i was 8. Computer died when i was 13. Did not have internet past 10 years old.
  Did not get a new one nor internet until i graduated high school.
  
  
  
  So i don't care about restrictions. If it is illegal don't do it?
  
  

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;967101:

  In the cat's opinion, the Canadian government has the worst regulation on Internet
  because of the terrible data caps and prices

  
  
  ISPs want to do that here as well, the phone companies are already doing it here.
• Sinned wrote on 2012-10-21 23:08
  So uh... when's the protest begin?
  
  /goes find some poster boards and molotovs
• Hazeri wrote on 2012-10-21 23:33
  I can hear Yoorah laughing like a maniac from his corner of the world.
  
  One of the perks of not liking mainstream media is that I've never pirated a movie, an american show (Tried once with GoT, but files were too heavy) nor mainstream music. I have "demoed" a few games, specially for the psp, but the ones I've enjoyed (Motherfucking Ys) I've bought them, and those I don't get deleted and never touched again. Admittedly, there's been some that I've been unable to acquire, because of rarity and price in my country, but I've been working on that (You'll soon be mine, RF3).
  
  Piracy is fine to test stuff, just buy the shit you enjoy, specially if it's from small publishers
• paladin wrote on 2012-10-22 02:12

  Quote from Hazeri;967117:

  I can hear Yoorah laughing like a maniac from his corner of the world.
  
  One of the perks of not liking mainstream media is that I've never pirated a movie, an american show (Tried once with GoT, but files were too heavy) nor mainstream music. I have "demoed" a few games, specially for the psp, but the ones I've enjoyed (Motherfucking Ys) I've bought them, and those I don't get deleted and never touched again. Admittedly, there's been some that I've been unable to acquire, because of rarity and price in my country, but I've been working on that (You'll soon be mine, RF3).
  
  Piracy is fine to test stuff, just buy the shit you enjoy, specially if it's from small publishers

  
  
  isnt he from maple leaf country like osay?
• Taycat wrote on 2012-10-22 03:43

  Quote from paladin;967152:

  isnt he from maple leaf country like osay?

  
  
  

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• Oizen wrote on 2012-10-22 04:54
  At least those poor starving billionaires in Holly wood are making money now.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-10-22 12:32

  Quote from OizenX;967232:

  At least those poor starving billionaires in Holly wood are making money now.

  
  
  It's not cause people are pirating that if you stop them they'll suddenly start buying those homeless billionaires's stuff in Hollywood.