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A crackdown on Internet piracy may come soon to an ISP near you. So far this is on PCWorld.com
and on the White House blog page.
"Copyright Cops Team with ISPs to fight music and movie pirates"
"ISPs may join fight against piracy" "ISPs Copyright Crackdown Raises Red Flags"
"ISPs Fight Piracy: Meet the Six Strikes" - which will be explained later
"Why Your Business Should Worry About the ISP Copyright Fight"
You can search for all this on Google, since their are many related reports on this.
Let's take a look here: A group of prominent Internet service providers, including Comcast,
AT&T, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable, announced Thursday that they will seek a more active
role to protect copyright owners--a.k.a. the entertainment industry--from online piracy.
ISPs will now send "Copyright Alerts" to Internet subscribers when their connection is allegedly
being used for content theft. If a single subscriber receives multiple alerts without
responding, ISPs may limit the user's connection speed or block them from accessing the web
altogether.
Normally your Internet service will be terminated if you use it for illegal reasons, but in
this case, they probably won't. If you paid for your Internet connection, you shouldn't
have to lose it, because of this, but ISPs claim they're only doing this to educate the
public about copyright and file sharing.
These notifications aren't new, but the ISP responses are. The National Cable & Telecommunications
Association, which represents ISPs, says in a release that online content theft costs
hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of lost earnings in the United
States every year. Which relates to the entertainment industry. They claim they're losing billons
to copyright theft. I wonder what they're saying is true, or just a tactic to protect
their company or reputation. Are they're losing money to copyright theft? That's what they
saying, most of us find it believable, and some find it hard to believe, but this is
happening right now, on the front.
The Copyright Alerts refer to the six strikes approach, which many ISPs like Comcast, AT&T,
Verizon and Time Warner have gotten together to discuss on. What these Copyright Alerts
do is, that if you downloaded/uploaded something that is pirated, from a peer-to-peer site
for instance, what your ISPs will do is send you an alert saying that's pirated or illegal
material that you've downloaded, or that's content that is claimed by a entertainment
entity. They'll probably say, you cannot download that material, and will note that in a pop-up
message or in an email from your Internet provider.
This is how they're going to do this: you get six strikes, and the sixth strike and
beyond, they'll slow down your Internet connection. It doesn't really say that they'll terminate
your Internet subscription for doing this, but they shouldn't have to terminate your
service because of this, based on the type of connection you have.
In another story, it is said that in 2012, the Internet is dead. But what do people mean
by "the Internet is dead"? They're saying it's full of viruses, ***, trojans, spam
and copyrighted content. They're saying it's not the Internet they've envisioned, so they
want to get rid of the old Internet, and in with the new Internet (known as Internet2)
But if you check out internet2.edu the site doesn't clearly state that these ISPs are
going to do this, but they got articles about their findings about Internet2 and how many
educational institutions are using Internet2. It's being tested, and many colleges and universities
have participated in this experiment, but the site doesn't clearly state how your ISP
will take advantage of this. If they get a hold of Internet2, then your current Internet
subscription may get converted into a cable or cell phone subscription.
Back to this story, again these Copyright Alerts are the six strikes approach, so if
you get the first strike, your ISP may note that you downloaded material that is not permitted
by an entity. How will they know what's copyrighted and what isn't?, Well, ISPs may have content
detection software they can use to detect infringing materials that are out there on
the web, which will be explained in a later video. There is a website that educates people
about copyrighted content and what ISPs are responding to this.
The folks at the White House made a statement about online piracy and how ISPs will respond.
Let's take a look at that.
Working Together to Stop Internet Piracy
The Administration is committed to reducing infringement of American intellectual property
as part of our ongoing commitment to support jobs, increase exports and maintain our global
competitiveness.
The joining of Internet service providers and entertainment companies in a cooperative
effort to combat online infringement can further this goal and we commend them for reaching
this agreement. We believe it will have a significant impact on reducing online piracy.
They said that reducing online piracy is good, for most of us, piracy is either good or bad,
and some said that piracy is just bad. Guess it's their take on online piracy.
We believe that this agreement is a positive step and consistent with our strategy of encouraging
voluntary efforts to strengthen online intellectual property enforcement and with our broader
Internet policy principles, emphasizing privacy, free speech, competition and due process.
As such, we will follow the implementation and outcomes of this arrangement with great
interest. Our expectation is that the new organization created by it will have ongoing
consultations with privacy and freedom of expression advocacy groups to assure that
its practices are fully consistent with the democratic values that have helped the Internet
to flourish.
So they're going to oversee this thing, I guess, to make sure it's not taken advantage
of
Simultaneously, the Administration will continue to pursue comprehensive solutions to the problems
associated with Internet piracy, including increased law enforcement and educational
awareness. To win the future and succeed in the global economy, it is critical to protect
the intellectual property of America’s innovators and creators.
They have been doing this for a while now, long ago it was tapes and disks that were
pirated, and now it's the Internet, and they're really coming down *** the web. Folks,
we can find alternative websites to download music or movies legal-like without the need
of peer-to-peer websites. So we can still do that, there are sites out there that allow
this through a legal approach. But the music and movies that you can get from these legal
sites aren't well known, they're mostly from unsigned musicians and filmmakers. We can
still enjoy the Internet while we still have it. Again, just a reminder that these ISPs
are cracking down on pirates who download or upload music or movies to these peer-to-peer
websites and have a way of detecting such activity on your Internet connection. That's
something we need to keep our eyes open. If your ISP is not enforcing this now, it may
be enforced in the near future. Just keep a sharp eye.