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Six Strikes is here. Beginning today, AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.That's right. The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.Click here to tell the ISPs: no cyber-snooping, no punitive new copyright rules. After a year of back room dealing with the MPAA and RIAA, the nation's top ISPs have agreed to use the so-called "Copyright Alert System" (or "Six Strikes") to go after customers suspected of file-sharing Following a series of escalating warnings, the plan would allow ISPs to slow down, or "throttle," the Internet connection of suspected copyright violators.And if you want to contest the accusation? That will cost you $35.Click here to put the ISPs on notice: stop overly punitive infringement policies or we'll take our business elsewhere.The new plan would jeopardize open and public WIFI networks, and lead to widespread wrongful accusations for those who share a network at home, in a WIFI hot spot, or in the workplace. Six Strikes is designed to safeguard the profits of America's wealthiest industries by tracking, targeting, and punishing internet users.
My internet is with Time Warner. I don't understand what this means for me.
Quote from: bestofour on Feb 28, 2013, 08:51:16 AMMy internet is with Time Warner. I don't understand what this means for me.Like Tina said, it probably won't matter much to you if you don't download copyrighted material. This is aimed more at the folks that participate in peer-to-peer file sharing. The details are where it gets scary. If they are monitoring for file sharing, then they will also "see" everything else. How many mistakes will they make when accusing someone of doing this? It's absurd that you will have to pay $35 if you just disagree with their accusation.