| Terrible idea!!! Some of you really do not get the impact this is going to have on the US economy and especially online sales organizations.
I posted this to another forum post but it works here too.
I don't think the RIAA/MPAA has thought their dastardly plan out very well. In most households there are multiple people. Lets say you have Mom, Dad, Sis, and little Bro all using the home broadband connection. Mom and Dad are upstanding citizens and use the web for reading online newspapers and ordering Netflix and Amazon stuff. Sis used the broadband to buy ridiculous amounts of itunes songs and uses Facebook like her life depended on it. Little Bro is the MMORPG gamer and resident MUSIC PIRATE! Oh teh noes! Little Bro is a content thief! Say it isn't so!
So Little Bro gets "three strikes" and he's (along with his whole family is) out. So now just because the RIAA/MPAA doesn't get their pound of flesh from Little Bro who HAS NO SPARE LUNCH MONEY to spend on RIAA/MPAA products anyway and since he's a pirate he was never going to buy anything from the RIAA/MPAA in the first place. RESULT: Now all the other people in the house and all the potential money companies could have made off of Mom, Dad, and Sis can now not happen because this families web has been cut off?
I think that Amazon, Netflix and all the potential sales recipients for this family might have something to say about this three strikes plan to the content cops and the ISP. If I were Amazon, Walmart, Netflix, a bank or a brokerage firm I would fight this tooth and nail!
This three strikes plan is not even good for the RIAA/MPAA who could still be making money from all these online sales organizations who are being used by the others in the household.
100% stupidity. |
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| This is no different then Little Johnny getting a cellphone and racking up a $1000 monthly bill because he uses it far to much.
What you're saying is parents should give up being parents and expect the school, and companies, and the government to raise them for you.
Sorry,your kids, your job to keep an eye on them and raise them.
What you describe is just lazy parenting, and any parent doing such a poor job probably NEEDS to lose their internet so they HAVE to spend some time with the children they obviously haven't spent enough time with anyway. |
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| You are only looking at this from the families perspective. Which is NOT the point I was making. My point was, there is more money for an online sales organization to make out of every household than just the single music pirate in a household containing more than just that pirate.
I in fact agree with you that managing the pirate in the house is the parents job. That does not change the fact that this three strikes law punishes more than the pirate. It punished the people in the house who ARE NOT pirates. And if I were an "Amazon" or a "Apple" I would still want the NON-pirates in that house to still beable to use the internet and spend money.
Read a little closer next time, ok? |
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| I forgot to list the biggest loss again. BANKS and the STOCK MARKET. What would the global economic impact be that DAD the day trader cannot actually DAT TRADE because Comcast cut off the internet to a house just because Little Johnny was pirating music.
THE INTERNET IS NOT ONLY USED FOR MUSIC!
The RIAA and MPAA need to keep this in mind when making these ISP's dance to their tune. |
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