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Title: 6 strikes starts
Post by: The Nstuff on June 30, 2012, 09:07:17 AM

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Starting tomorrow, major ISPs will begin enacting the 6 strikes rule thanks to our friends at the RIAA and MPAA.


If you are found to be illegitimately sharing or downloading content, the 6 steps will begin: 
  1-4) The first four infractions will result in an alert or notification.  These alerts will continue to get more and more invasive possibly redirecting you to a landing page to click through several steps to acknowledge the rules.
  5 and 6)  The ISP will begin mitigation efforts which may include reducing your Internet speeds or permanently redirecting you to a page indicating you must call the ISP to discuss the matter before they will turn it back on.


This is purely up to the ISPs but most don't include any plans to disconnect the users as they don't want to lose customers or have to deal with lawsuits.  However, the plan requires that the ISP must have some form of automated system to know how many times each customer has been notified.


source:  http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-1/ (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-1/)

Title: Re: 6 strikes starts
Post by: vincegun on June 30, 2012, 02:23:33 PM

Comcast just recently announced that they aren't going to hand over user details or identities to the record or movie people, right? Something like that? Will that affect this at all?

Title: Re: 6 strikes starts
Post by: sully! on July 01, 2012, 09:22:38 AM

I'm pretty sure Comcast was part of this six strikes agreement. The six strikes thing was kind of the compromise between the ISP's and the RIAA/MPAA. So the the *AA's will stop subpoenaing the ISP's for this user information (which is typically quite costly to the ISP, multiplied by the thousands of requests they make) as long as the ISP's have some sort of internal method which will track/notify the subscribers. Off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Verizon, ATT, Cablevision etc. are all part of this agreement.

**All of the above is taken from distant foggy memories when six-strikes was first announced, I have no source to verify any of it.

Title: Re: 6 strikes starts
Post by: vincegun on July 01, 2012, 11:11:20 AM

Well, I suppose this is a smidge better than Europe's 3-strike law.

Title: Re: 6 strikes starts
Post by: zx2slow on July 03, 2012, 12:07:17 PM

I believe the ISP/Telco people should get all their lawyers together in a giant circlejerk and decide what they need to do to maintain their common carrier status and then stick to that.  Set some permanent ground rules for all parties to play on rather than every couple of years have some soulless RIAA/MPAA suit come up with some bullCrap new game to play.

The DMCA has gotten insane with copyright holder bots reporting huge amounts of Crap (increasingly inaccurately too may I add) to websites who have to increasingly respond to all this, and its a lot of work expense for websites to handle without getting paid.  A provision that they need to pay for this or have to pay automatic penalties for misreporting stuff would be a great thing.

Title: Re: 6 strikes starts
Post by: Broken on July 03, 2012, 12:19:23 PM

Its time to go back to Tape!

Title: Re: 6 strikes starts
Post by: -Sp()()ge- on July 08, 2012, 08:06:32 PM

will this affect my prons?

Title: Re: 6 strikes starts
Post by: vincegun on July 09, 2012, 06:52:24 AM

Maybe someone should purposely try to get notified all 6 times. Just to see how hard that people are out there and policing the interwebs.

Title: Re: 6 strikes starts
Post by: vincegun on July 13, 2012, 02:01:45 PM

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/1751208/isp-six-strikes-plan-delayed (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/1751208/isp-six-strikes-plan-delayed)