ZRod Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 If you're a customer of Comcast, Cablevision, Time Warner, Verizon, AT&T and some other Internet service providers you better be a little more discreet about visiting file sharing sites come July 12th. I'm shocked that I can't find a news article on this dated after the middle of March. The ISPs have an agreement with RIAA and MPAA to monitor your IP address for "digital piracy". From what little I've been able to find it seems that you don't even have to download copyrighted material to receive warning/punishment. As long as your IP visited a known site that host questionable material and had some kind of data transfer you could be receiving a letter in the mail and eventually slowed or terminated service. http://www.foxnews.c...arting-july-12/ http://www.rawstory....eme-on-july-12/ Quote Link to comment
Count 'Bility Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Just one step closer to that cpu chip theyre sooner or later gonna start installing in our wrists. Welcome to Russia, aint seen nothin yet. Quote Link to comment
teachercd Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Is that more for movies and music? I download TV shows at time. Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Does this include pay-per-view events that some people watch but don't download? Quote Link to comment
ZRod Posted June 29, 2012 Author Share Posted June 29, 2012 Is that more for movies and music? I download TV shows at time. As far as I can tell it's indiscriminate, because the programs were created and implemented voluntarily by the ISPs. But of course they had the usual suspects pushing for it in the RIAA and MPAA, so movies and music will no doubt be heavily targeted. I think most tech savvy people could get around these programs with proxy and the like, so it's really more of an inconvenience. I guess this has been going on in Europe for sometime and it's only had about a 1 to 4% decrease in pirating, which doesn't fit well with the cost to benefit analysis people. Quote Link to comment
teachercd Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Is that more for movies and music? I download TV shows at time. As far as I can tell it's indiscriminate, because the programs were created and implemented voluntarily by the ISPs. But of course they had the usual suspects pushing for it in the RIAA and MPAA, so movies and music will no doubt be heavily targeted. I think most tech savvy people could get around these programs with proxy and the like, so it's really more of an inconvenience. I guess this has been going on in Europe for sometime and it's only had about a 1 to 4% decrease in pirating, which doesn't fit well with the cost to benefit analysis people. interesting. I use utorrentz.com all the time, Hmmmm Quote Link to comment
bennychico11 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 I love this: Customers found to be illegally downloading copyrighted material will first receive one or two notifications from their ISPs, essentially stating that they have been caught. If the illegal downloads continue, subscribers will receive a new notice requesting acknowledgement that the notice has been received. Subsequent offenses can then result in bandwidth throttling and even service suspension. Offense 1 & 2: We caught you! Offense 3: Did you receive our notice? Offense 4: We're super-serious this time! Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 I love this: Customers found to be illegally downloading copyrighted material will first receive one or two notifications from their ISPs, essentially stating that they have been caught. If the illegal downloads continue, subscribers will receive a new notice requesting acknowledgement that the notice has been received. Subsequent offenses can then result in bandwidth throttling and even service suspension. Offense 1 & 2: We caught you! Offense 3: Did you receive our notice? Offense 4: We're super-serious this time! You don't have to really begin worrying until they bring in dean Wormer and put you on double secret probation.... Quote Link to comment
Decked Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 What the hell.... Looks like this is going to be so much fun. Quote Link to comment
Foppa Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 I love this: Customers found to be illegally downloading copyrighted material will first receive one or two notifications from their ISPs, essentially stating that they have been caught. If the illegal downloads continue, subscribers will receive a new notice requesting acknowledgement that the notice has been received. Subsequent offenses can then result in bandwidth throttling and even service suspension. Offense 1 & 2: We caught you! Offense 3: Did you receive our notice? Offense 4: We're super-serious this time! It reminds me of the U.N. and Hillary Clinton on their stance on Syria. "We condemn you killing civilians!" Next day..."You killed children!" Now we STRONGLY condemn this!" Next day..."You killed more civilians! Don't make us condemn this even more!" Quote Link to comment
irafreak Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Well I guess I'll find out what happens this fall when I stream the games every Saturday? Quote Link to comment
Foppa Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 I wonder what these companies are getting out of this? They're basically setting themselves up to potentially lose customers just to help the RIAA and MPAA? Quote Link to comment
rawhide Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 The way the RIAA and MPAA have lost customers or gave them incentive to find alternatives that they can't monitor. Just like the governments, one step behind. Nature of the beastie Quote Link to comment
Foppa Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 The way the RIAA and MPAA have lost customers or gave them incentive to find alternatives that they can't monitor. Just like the governments, one step behind. Nature of the beastie Yeah, I remember when the whole 'napster' thing was going down, thinking to myself, 'This isn't going to change anything in the RIAA's favor. This medium is here to stay whether they like it or not. We'll see if the RIAA makes the right moves to envelop and develop this change in music society.' They managed to do absolutely everything wrong. Quote Link to comment
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