Will it finally happen? Are the days of carefree pirating soon to be gone? It may well be so...
A group of ISP (Internet Service Providers) such as AT&T, Comcast and Verison are soon to converge in a team effort to slow and hopefully stop the flow of pirated media's.
The agreement between the companies has been in the works for a long time, but seems to be reaching a conclusion.
The agreement between the companies is this:
- To have tougher crackdowns on people who are too frequently accessing sites where pirated information is available.
- To be able to cut off customers who refuse to cut down their intake on pirated media's.
- To have strict (and possibly expensive) charges laid to persons who are continually downloading content from sites containing pirated content.
- To track and share user IP information between each other to better remove the increased access to pirated sites.
I believe this to be a fundamentally necessary step in the fight to prevent a large percent of the public from accessing pirated content and from uploading pirated content.
Of course it wouldn't be a fine for the first offense, for the first offense your ISP would have to issue a written warning to your household. And for those who do not heed the warning the ISP would be allowed to do as seen fit. (EX: booting from pirating sites, slowing down bandwidth speed, denying access to the internet altogether.)
The agreement has the support of several large cable companies such as Time Warner Cable, CableVision, Charter Communications, Comcast, and Qwest Communications and also has the support of the White House and it's delegates.
If this agreement were to come together it would be one of the most powerful anti-piracy acts to date. And could spell out the beginning of the for piracy.
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