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| Consumers get shafted again This new plan is a recipe for disaster for consumers.
1. How do you deal with false accusations? I bet ISPs won't be too accommodating, they just won't have the manpower to deal with it. And while we are at that, just HOW a customer is supposed to prove he is innocent? It's a case RIAA said you're guilty so you must be. How can you argue that?
2. How do you keep track of violations through different ISPs. Say a person got 3 strikes with one ISP and switches to a different one. The new provider doesn't know that the person had 3 strikes already, unless of course **AA will facilitate data sharing between providers, even more data mining on your private data.
3. How do you keep track of violations anyway. Do you keep track by SSN, by First Name/Last Name, by Family Name, by address? I can already imagine the calls:
-I'm sorry sir, but someone at your address have violated copyright three times
-But I didn't move into this apartment until a week ago
-Sorry sir, but there is nothing I can do
4. So real world scenario. A family has children using filesharing services. They get first notice, they smack children on the head, but not hard enough. Children continue and get caught again. Second notice. Now the kids are in real trouble so they stop sharing. But, the system fails and sends the family third notice. They are now cut off because of a mistake in the system. What now? No one in the family can ever get internet service again? The only real way I see is wiping out strikes from record that are older than so many years. But is it going to happen? I think that's unlikely.
In short, this will be a system with zero oversight, prone to abuse and real people will get the shafted... again. |
