• “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts Monday in the US
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/r48EKPa.jpg[/img] [quote]The much-discussed U.S. six strikes anti-piracy scheme is expected to go live on Monday. The start date hasn’t been announced officially by the CCI but a source close to the scheme confirmed the plans. During the coming months millions of BitTorrent users will be actively monitored by copyright holders. After repeated warnings, Internet subscribers risk a heavy reduction in download speeds and temporary browsing restrictions.[/quote] [url=http://torrentfreak.com/six-strikes-anti-piracy-scheme-starts-monday-130223/]READ MORE[/url]
[QUOTE]After repeated warnings, Internet subscribers risk a heavy reduction in download speeds and temporary browsing restrictions.[/QUOTE] Like that's going to do jack shit to stop piracy waste of time and money IMO
Oh shit.
I have a second source you can add: [url]http://www.dailydot.com/news/copyright-alerts-system-launch-six-strikes/[/url]
how'd this shit slip under the radar?
Seriously using IP adresses to find out who is downloading? What about dynamic IPs? Proxies/VPNs? Does this apply to all ISPs?
[quote]After repeated warnings, Internet subscribers risk a heavy reduction in download speeds and temporary browsing restrictions.[/quote] oh no oh god what am i going to do
This can't possibly be constitutional, can it?
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;39696137]This can't possibly be constitutional, can it?[/QUOTE] I assure you, it isn't
it begins
VPN sales skyrocket.
[QUOTE=legolover122;39696119]Seriously using IP adresses to find out who is downloading? What about dynamic IPs? Proxies/VPNs? Does this apply to all ISPs?[/QUOTE] I think only to AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. I hate to see all the anti-piracy nostalgia forming because if pirates want something, they'll always be one step ahead and find a way to get it. MPAA, RIAA, and the ISPs can ban all they want, but they should be prepared in the future to talk about why their plans didn't work.
lol this just in IP addresses are people
at least this is better than going after individuals and suing them for extremely unrealistic amounts of money
In what way would this accomplish anything.
Dang, I wont be able to download my linux distros anymore. :(
This just in. Everyone who was going to download music is now going to use mediafire. [editline]23rd February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Zillamaster55;39696201]In what way would this accomplish anything.[/QUOTE] It fucks people over who want to legitimately send large files over the internet without both parties paying 10 dollars for memberships on sites.
Fuck, I better change my router password; too many people use it.
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;39696208]This just in. Everyone who was going to download music is now going to use mediafire.[/QUOTE] mediafire has extensive media content matching like youtube, doesn't it?
[QUOTE=J!NX;39696187]lol this just in IP addresses are people[/QUOTE] hasn't a us higher court ruled that ip addresses are not a way to legally identify a person?
[QUOTE=yawmwen;39696262]hasn't a us higher court ruled that ip addresses are not a way to legally identify a person?[/QUOTE] [url]http://torrentfreak.com/judge-an-ip-address-doesnt-identify-a-person-120503/[/url] "New York Judge Gary Brown explains in great detail why an IP-address is not sufficient evidence to identify copyright infringers. " Thankfully yes
I feel sorry that you Americans have to put up with this shit
And Monday VPNs go mainstream. And Tuesday the MPAA says six strikes aren't enough and start lobbying to ban VPNs.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;39696137]This can't possibly be constitutional, can it?[/QUOTE] For a price the obligation to adhere to the constitution and respect basic human rights can be waived. That's how it has always worked, and that is how it will continue to work until humanity no longer exists.
The whole IP addresses thing reminds me of this: [url]http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/faq.html#q10[/url] (for those too lazy to click, a [I]printer[/I] got a dmca notice for supposedly downloading stuff.)
[QUOTE=Crash15;39696145]I assure you, it isn't[/QUOTE] I assure you it is. You're buying a product from a private business. They can do whatever the fuck they want with it.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;39696137]This can't possibly be constitutional, can it?[/QUOTE] This is a private agreement between the MPAA/RIAA and ISPs, it's completely outside the government. They couldn't get SOPA to do it for them, so they just made a deal outside of government.
If they start capping your speeds for no legit reason like that simply void out the contract right? Seeing as they're not holding their end. Like people who pay for whatever amount of unlimited mbs download speeds right?
[QUOTE=koeniginator;39696244]mediafire has extensive media content matching like youtube, doesn't it?[/QUOTE] Basically yeah, I'm assuming it searches for blacklisted filenames (both of the actual archive and the files inside), then blacklisted file hashes, then so on and so forth. I'm still not sure if passwording/encryption stops it, but I have had files get instadeleted and blacklisted from future uploading even if passworded/encrypted. anyways, there's no reason to use MF anymore for piracy, they put the ability to download multipart archives behind a pay wall and with Mega open it's about to time for filesharers to migrate away from it.
Hopefully they don't start needlessly capping torrent speeds. I quite enjoy being able to torrent 4GB+ linux distros.
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