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New anti-piracy system will hit U.S. Internet users next week
dailydot.comStarting next week, most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new copyright enforcement system that could slow the Internet to a crawl and force violators to take educational courses.
A source with direct knowledge of the Copyright Alert System (CAS), who asked not to be named, has told the Daily Dot that the five participating Internet service providers (ISPs) will start the controversial program Monday.
The ISPs—industry giants AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon—will launch their versions of the CAS on different days throughout the week. Comcast is expected to be the first, on Monday.
» via Daily Dot
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Hard to compete with Free: €20 for unlimited voice, text, and 3G data
arstechnica.comIf the US market is so competitive, why doesn’t Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, or even T-Mobile offer unlimited texts, minutes, MMS, and 3G/4G internet for $25/month? There are some limitations that Free places, but they seem reasonable. Besides, with 0.1% churn rate per month they seem to be doing quite well - not to mention their regular broadband service (20-30Mbps internet + free landline calls to 100 countries + TV service w/HD DVR for $45/month).
Why am I not in France right now?
Ars Technica: Major ISPs agree to "six strikes" copyright enforcement plan
arstechnica.comLike the article says, this has come many years too late but still, this is a far more reasonable approach to the whole copyright infringement thing than anything else that has been tried so far.
ISPs monitoring
Anyone actually having issues with this?
I heard this was going to be the biggest deal against people already receiving notices but like is anyone getting warnings and stuff or what?
I torrent anime so I don’t know if I’m gonna get a warning or what. OTL
Srsly it feels like invasion of privacy in the end.
RIAA and ISPs to police your traffic starting July 12
arstechnica.comDuring a panel discussion held for U.S. publishers today, RIAA chairman Cary Sherman said his association and a number of ISPs—including AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon—will begin policing traffic to crack down on piracy starting this summer.
The deal is not new, however—the RIAA and the participating ISPs came to this agreement last June. But the delay was bureaucratic: according to CNET, Sherman explained that, “each ISP has to develop their infrastructure for automating the system, He gave July 12 as the “start date” for the traffic monitoring to start.
“The system” according to Torrent Freak, involves major labels monitoring BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer networks for copyright infringement, and then reporting that infringement to ISPs, who will monitor their networks for the transgressors.
Copyright Infringement Alert System
Today marks the beginning of Internet Service Provider (ISP) copyright violation standards. AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon have formed an anti-piracy agreement — and it all starts with a strike.
“Six strikes” will be given to copyright violators — essentially there are three different steps taken when a copyright owner notifies an ISP of piracy:
- Violation 1 & 2 - ISP sends online alert to subscriber, e.g, email.
- Violation 3 & 4 - Pop-up or landing page mechanism to ensure subscriber received notice
- Violation 5 & 6 - ISP will limit connectivity for subscribers or require educational measures
According to TIME, ” ISPs will never terminate an Internet connection entirely, or otherwise interfere with the subscriber’s ability to receive phone calls and e-mails
Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/07/08/six-strikes-anti-piracy-measures/#ixzz1RWs8LjFL
-Chadwiki
Netflix names Charter the best ISP for streaming in the US, takes a jab at Comcast
kwlnk.usIn a letter to shareholders, Netflix named Charter Communications the best streaming ISP in the United States, and then proceeded to talk about how much it really costs for ISPs to deliver their data.
CEO Reed Hastings also noted that the cost for an ISP to transmit approximately 1GB of data, “is less than a penny, and falling, so there is no reason that pay-per-gigabyte is economically necessary,” referring to the conflict between Comcast and Level3 Communications over carrying Netflix’s data over the MSO’s network.
