Security → Why Your Business Should Worry About the ISP Copyright Fight

By Bruce Gain, PCWorld

Millions of small business owners may soon realize that their Internet service could be disrupted if they're wrongly accused of illegal file sharing or downloading under the "six strikes" plan entertainment media groups announced this week.

Initiated by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and other media groups, participating ISPs will shortly begin sending warning letters to users or companies whose accounts are allegedly used to illegally share files. ISPs will send a series of up to six notices to account holders whose IP addresses are allegedly used for the "online content theft of film, TV shows, or music" as part of the Center for Copyright Information initiative. After six notices, the ISP could begin a series of "mitigation measures"--which for all intents and purposes would likely lead to the disruption of Internet services on which most small businesses depend.

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Do they (so called "Recording Industry") still making money on recording? Or now disruption of the Internet and suing everyone around become their main source of revenue? What a bunch of crooks...

ISPs agree on web piracy crackdown

July 9, 2011 3:04 am
By Joseph Menn
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Don't know if the content is the same, but the above link required registration.

Try this, ISPs agree on web piracy crackdown.

(Maybe I found a pirated link to the data?)

Uh oh. Strike one. "Stealing" news.

And Strike two, posting the link so others can "steal" it.

Listened to any "stolen" music in a YouTube video? Strike three!

Strike four, quoting previous posts without permission.

Quoting posts without permission?

I see a huge hypocrisy here. We're a "little guy" folks and there are corporations. We live in the same space, but in different worlds. Little guy could be punished for quoting or copying something (not making a penny from that), wile big corporations could do whatever they want to make money. You can't copy a post, they can copy content of the whole Internet and publish that on their own servers without any restrictions... You want to see it? Just click on "Cached" link on some pages, provided you by those big corporations...

That's you, the little guy, who is not allowed to make a copy for your own use. And that's them, corporations, that make money from that. There're two different worlds here, living at the same time, under the same law, made in behalf of them, corporations...