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5 ISPs agree to help entertainment industry fight online piracy
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 7 July, 2011
In a move that should have broad implications, 5 major ISPs have signed an agreement with the entertainment industry in an effort to help fight online piracy.
The ISPs are AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision.
Each has agreed to send emails/electronic alerts to customers who are allegedly downloading unauthorized movies, TV shows or music.
After "repeated" alerts, ... [ read the full article ]
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six60six
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8. July 2011 @ 17:52 |
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Originally posted by ROMaster2:
If you charge according to bandwidth usage it fixes
that.
then they have to get rid of the speed-based tiers. double-tiering (speed and bandwidth usage) seems a little retarded.
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FrankyJs
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8. July 2011 @ 18:10 |
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If they're doing this in order to prevent piracy then that's fine with me, but if they're going to be turning this into a profit making venture, that's messed up. As someone who could be hurt by widespread piracy of my work I dislike piracy, but I don't want it to turn into other people just putting money in the bank claiming their just helping uphold the law.
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8. July 2011 @ 19:56 |
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Efffff you, ISPs! I will take what I want, how I want, when I want and where I want!
Mwah-hahahahaha!!!!!!!
Seriously, go screw.
Someone told me once that theres a right and wrong, and that punishment would come to those
who dare to cross the line.
But it must not be true for jerk-offs like you.
Maybe it takes longer to catch a total asshole.
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bradhall
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8. July 2011 @ 21:03 |
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rad.hall
Originally posted by nonoitall:
Originally posted by jos22:
Originally posted by HxCMANIAC:
The ISPs wouldn't even want to cut off internet to offenders. They don't care what you download, as long as you are a paying customer.
that true but ISP like customers who use very little bandwidth more. assume of course that file shares are hogging bandwith
And in addition, the **AA's undoubtedly coughed up a fair chunk of change to bribe the ISPs into doing this. Enough change that it would probably offset a few lost subscriptions.
it would have to be more than a little chunk of change and have to be more than one payment im sure.
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bradhall
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8. July 2011 @ 21:04 |
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rad.hall
Originally posted by nonoitall:
Originally posted by jos22:
Originally posted by HxCMANIAC:
The ISPs wouldn't even want to cut off internet to offenders. They don't care what you download, as long as you are a paying customer.
that true but ISP like customers who use very little bandwidth more. assume of course that file shares are hogging bandwith
And in addition, the **AA's undoubtedly coughed up a fair chunk of change to bribe the ISPs into doing this. Enough change that it would probably offset a few lost subscriptions.
it would have to be more than a little chunk of change and have to be more than one payment im sure.
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8. July 2011 @ 22:01 |
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I imagine they call it a "partnership".
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forkndave
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8. July 2011 @ 23:06 |
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Originally posted by HxCMANIAC:
The ISPs wouldn't even want to cut off internet to offenders. They don't care what you download, as long as you are a paying customer.
My ISP is Qwest. What they do is send you an email and then cut off your internet before you even get the email. This happened to me twice with a threat to make it permanent the next time. I now use a VPN service and haven't had any more problems from them.
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davolente
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9. July 2011 @ 06:58 |
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Some years ago (well before all this furore started) my UK ISP took it upon themselves to e-mail me, accusing me of the heinous "crime" of file-sharing, accompanied by a threat of cutting me off, so there's nothing new under the sun, as they say! Needless to say, I terminated my association with them in short order, stating that they had no right to set themselves up as judge and jury.
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9. July 2011 @ 16:00 |
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Im sure ive collect thousands of those Warning emails...unfortunate for the ISP they have no email for me on record nor a Valid Phone Number for that matter. how ever will they warn me.
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Mez
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10. July 2011 @ 15:59 |
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Originally posted by forkndave:
Originally posted by HxCMANIAC:
The ISPs wouldn't even want to cut off internet to offenders. They don't care what you download, as long as you are a paying customer.
My ISP is Qwest. What they do is send you an email and then cut off your internet before you even get the email. This happened to me twice with a threat to make it permanent the next time. I now use a VPN service and haven't had any more problems from them.
Quest is probably not all that interested in going after you. When torrents were doubling the band width usage each year they were very concerned. I am sure the usage is going down not up. I am certain they could figure out what you are doing but they do not want to. The media probably can't track you unless they can hack into the the group that provides the VPN. This has happened. Those providers are probably in countries that will not bow to court orders from the US or UK. You should be save enough. The media will continue to beat on the freebee torrent users since they can.
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forkndave
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10. July 2011 @ 19:52 |
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Originally posted by Mez:
Originally posted by forkndave:
Originally posted by HxCMANIAC:
The ISPs wouldn't even want to cut off internet to offenders. They don't care what you download, as long as you are a paying customer.
My ISP is Qwest. What they do is send you an email and then cut off your internet before you even get the email. This happened to me twice with a threat to make it permanent the next time. I now use a VPN service and haven't had any more problems from them.
Quest is probably not all that interested in going after you. When torrents were doubling the band width usage each year they were very concerned. I am sure the usage is going down not up. I am certain they could figure out what you are doing but they do not want to. The media probably can't track you unless they can hack into the the group that provides the VPN. This has happened. Those providers are probably in countries that will not bow to court orders from the US or UK. You should be save enough. The media will continue to beat on the freebee torrent users since they can.
The email that Qwest would send me that I never would see until after my service was resumed was from some anti-piracy group. They knew exactly what I downloaded and insisted that I remove it from my computer. Of course I agreed to and never did. I think they got me for a movie and a TV show. The VPN was necessary even though it was not really cheap and it slows down my already slow connection a bit. I believe my VPN provider is in the US. They have tons of servers all over the country and around the world. While isohunt was pretty much banned in the US for a while I found that I could log in through a Canadian server. That was sort of handy.
I don't think that Qwest actually cared one way or the other. Apparently they would be fined if they continued to allow this to happen. I got quite irate about this and threatened to cancel my service and go elsewhere. They didn't seem to care one way or the other if I left and said a new ISP would do the same thing. I would have switched, but my internet and cable TV are intertwined and I would be totally without probably for a couple of weeks. I believe I will eventually switch to COX which is my only other choice.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 10. July 2011 @ 20:01
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