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    RIAA chief: ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12

    [PokeCommunity.com] Net Neutrality

    Fritz Attaway, executive vice president of the Motion Picture Association of America (left) and Cary Sherman of the Recording Industry Association of America, discussed copyright and antipiracy today in New York.​

    The country's largest Internet service providers haven't given up on the idea of becoming copyright cops.

    Last July, Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and other bandwidth providers announced that they had agreed to adopt policies designed to discourage customers from illegally downloading music, movies and software. Since then, the ISPs have been very quiet about their antipiracy measures.
    But during a panel discussion before a gathering of U.S. publishers here today, Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, said most of the participating ISPs are on track to begin implementing the program by July 12.

    Supporters say this could become the most effective antipiracy program ever. Since ISPs are the Internet's gatekeepers, the theory is that network providers are in the best position to fight illegal file sharing. CNET broke the news last June that the RIAA and counterparts at the trade group for the big film studios, had managed to get the deal through--with the help of the White House.
    Sherman told attendees of the Association of American Publishers' annual meeting, that planners had always said that setting up an antipiracy program like this could take a year. He told CNET following his panel that the process isn't as easy as turning on a switch.
    "Each ISP has to develop their infrastructure for automating the system," Sherman said. They need this "for establishing the database so they can keep track of repeat infringers, so they know that this is the first notice or the third notice. Every ISP has to do it differently depending on the architecture of its particular network. Some are nearing completion and others are a little further from completion."
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    Give it to the RIAA and MPAA to find a way to still get their cake and eat all of it.

    Since they couldn't get their lackies in congress to toe the party line with SOPA/PIPA, they get to come together with their friends in the Private sector and form a loophole against the FCC ruling for Net Neutrality in the wire-based internet service sector through "warning messages" and such.

    And since most of these programs are going to be "automated" get ready to be sued with false positives out of your mind.
     
    My kingdom for a law restricting the power of these businesses. I'm sick of hearing their latest inability to do more than the most basic thought into an issue. It's time to stop fighting their stupidity and start fighting /them/, methinks.
     
    Meanwhile, the Pirate Bay is looking to send their servers into space. Who are the real innovators here?
     
    twocows said:
    Meanwhile, the Pirate Bay is looking to send their servers into space. Who are the real innovators here?
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    At first when they mentioned that a while back, I wasn't sure if they were serious but, sure enough, they exist.

    I have been following this whole Piratebay story on Torrentfreak (Awesome website for news about this sort of thing by the way) for a while now.
     
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