ISP Six Strikes Program to 'Double in Size' This Year Friday Sep 12 2014 12:10 EDT With the entertainment industry's "six strikes" program now a year and a half old, the entertainment-industry organization behind the effort (Center for Copyright Information) says that the program is set to double in size this year. That means not only more warnings, but more partner ISPs, and more content industries demanding that warnings be sent out to broadband subscribers: quote:
In addition to sending more notices, the CCI will also consider adding more copyright holders and ISPs to the mix. Thus far the software and book industries have been left out, for example, and the same is true for smaller Internet providers. "We’ve had lots of requests from content owners in other industries and ISPs to join, and how we do that is I think going to be a question for the year coming up,” Lesser noted.
As we've discussed, the program is a graduated response system, where users receive several warnings before more severe punishment (throttling, blocking) is attempted. Customers who feel they're falsely accused must pay a $35 fee to protest their innocence. The CCI claims that just 3% of customers who received alerts reached the latter "mitigation" stages. As it stands now, nothing happens to a user that receives all of the alerts, and nobody tracks users who switch between ISPs (both things the industry likely wants to change). |
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The MPAA/RIAA never got over losing the Sony BetaMax case.Jack Valenti the now deceased head of the MPAA went through a psychotic rant over the decision of the Supreme Court to permit the sale of VCR's, before the court was bought and paid for by corporations. Valenti went on how the VCR was going to destroy the movie business. The RIAA parasites were able to screw consumers by having the government to require manufactures of "High Fidelity" audio cassettes to pay a fee to the RIAA for each one sold whether or not they were used to record copyrighted material.
When consumer CD Recorders were developed the government under RIAA lobbying pressure required that the Serial Copy Management System be incorporated in each consumer CD Recorder to prevent making a copy of a copy. The government also required that each consumer CD recorder must differentiate between blank CD's for which a fee had been paid to record copyrighted material (Music CD). The CD recorder must reject those CD's that the fee had not been paid for (CD ROM) even if a blank CD was not being used to record copyrighted material.
I believe the term is forbearance to describe what the RIAA did. Charge consumers for cassettes and blank CD's even if they were never used to record copyrighted material. As a result the copyright parasites received something for nothing. What a racket these parasites got away with, charging consumers just in case the media might be used to record copyrighted material.
THE COPYRIGHT PARASITES TRIED TO GET THE GOVERNMENT TO LEVY A FEE TO BE PAID BY EACH BROADBAND SUBSCRIBER EVEN IF THEY NEVER DOWNLOADED COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. Fortunately the ability of the copyright parasites to root around in consumers pockets was denied. | |
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