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Six Strikes Policy

Meh, it'll just push people to using things like vpn's and ssl tunnels. Isp's might see volume downloads, but they won't know what is contained within they volume, so they can only suspect.
 
Here in the UK, they were proposing 3 strikes and you lost your interweb connection. Not sure if that was ever implemented.

I don't really have a problem with making it tougher for people to steal music and movies. Largely because it doesn't really affect me :)

In the past, I didn't have too much sympathy for the music and movie industries as they had grossly overcharged people for years and years - particularly here in the UK: it was about 60% more expensive buying British CDs in the UK than it was in the far east and about double the price of the US. Then they were total Ludites regarding t'interweb.

I think they've probably suffered enough now, plus they've finally made it easy enough to buy stuff on-line. And at more reasonable prices - though I believe we still pay more in the UK than you do in the US.

But perhaps the most important change is that I rarely buy music or movies any more :)
 
they've been trying all sorts of different things. Cablevision used to send out mails with name of content downloaded. Nothing else.
There are plenty of places to get things from, newsgroups is one of the safest.
 
seems more like an act of desperation than an actual solution. People who are determined to get free content will always find those people willing to give it. educating a thief to not steal is like warning a murderer not to kill. Even with substantial laws and consequences people will still do what they are going to do. Nothing can stop that. In the US we have prisons full of people that broke the law that alone should tell you that its not going to work.
 
I think there may be a difference here in that most of the people who are stealing content don't actually think of it as stealing - most would be quite insulted if you called them a thief. Even though they pretty clearly are, by any definition.

Maybe there's something could be done with that - "nudging" of some sort.
 
Six strike warnings seems reasonable and more than fair. Personally, I am more of a Judge Roy Bean kinda guy. If you do not get it after six warnings, you probably deserve whatever you get. But again . . . that is just me, perhaps.

Stealing is stealing and this policy seems more than fair.

There are those here that disagree because they hate the studios,the RAA, the MPAA and Lars Ulrich.
 
I'm Ok with it as long as it's done legally. I don't want my isp or these organizations pushing spyware or similar products to computers to see if your pirating. It mostly sounds like they're going to camp on the notorious torrent sites to detect people at this point.
 
If the various industries want to take Draconian measures to "protect" (much data suggests that it actually hurts all parties, themselves the most) their IP, that's their prerogative. But I'm not willing to pay for something less than true Internet service from an Internet Service Provider, just because of others' wrongdoing. In short: not my problem. And if they want to make it my problem, I'll make it their problem many times over.

If the entity that we know as the Internet becomes nothing more than highly policed and limited CDN channels, I'll spend the rest of my days working on private freenets and being an amateur radio operator. Easy come, easy go.
 
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