Here's a warning to all of you pirates out there. Talk like a pirate day has come and gone but American Internet Service Providors are keeping piracy in the news with a new policy that is set to go into effect next month. The RIAA and MPAA have been battling BitTorrent sites like The Pirate bay for years over hosting links to illegal content. Kim DotCom was recently arrested and put in jail for running one such site. Well Brendan Spaar doesn't think the content providors are going to be sending the sherrif to your house to arrest you but they have another way of dealing with you. Content providors will be scanning Torrent sites collecting IPs of people who are downloading the content. They will then turn over the list of IPs to each ISP (Internet Service Providor). The ISP will then send an email to the individual warning them to stop such activity. If the user is caught a second time, another warning will go out. On the fifth (yes FIFTH) warning, the ISP will take action which includes turning the subscriber's info over to the RIAA as well as possibly suspending their account.
I'm actually in support of this approach so long as the RIAA and MPAA have some proof that the person actually completed their download. The ISP should not be turning over this info (sans court order I might add) just because a business wants them to. What's to stop me from requesting subscriber information from AT&T when I receive a blog comment that I don't like? Now the RIAA and MPAA has to give the subscriber 5 strikes before they can go after them. A little extra investigation never hurt anyone and sometimes when you take your time you can actually find out what is going on.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/18/tech/web/copyright-alert-system/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5
I'm actually in support of this approach so long as the RIAA and MPAA have some proof that the person actually completed their download. The ISP should not be turning over this info (sans court order I might add) just because a business wants them to. What's to stop me from requesting subscriber information from AT&T when I receive a blog comment that I don't like? Now the RIAA and MPAA has to give the subscriber 5 strikes before they can go after them. A little extra investigation never hurt anyone and sometimes when you take your time you can actually find out what is going on.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/18/tech/web/copyright-alert-system/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5
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