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source: http://filepost.com/blog/post/17/
How US ISPs are going to cooperate with RIAA and MPAA companies about piracy questions
source: http://filepost.com/blog/post/17/
How US ISPs are going to cooperate with RIAA and MPAA companies about piracy questions
Hello to everyone,
As we know, the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America started discussion of copyright infringement fighting methods with Internet Service Providers of USA a couple years ago.
Lately one more step has been taken towards this goal. Recently US ISPs and RIAA with MPAA started the process of preparing new policies that would allow to punish ISP users who participate in illegal file sharing process. According to the official reports, such ISPs as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast were involved in the negotiations.
The process of punishing should look like that:
1. Copyright owner finds out an act of infringement, finds out information about the user who is responsible for the infringement and passes this information to the internet service that provides the service to the user.
2. The ISP sends several written warnings to the user, if they do not work, then the ISP can take the following measures:
- decreasing internet bandwidth speed for the user
- setting up limited access to the web (access to only 200 top sites may be allowed)
- making the user to take educational program about copyright questions.
Noone means total termination of access to internet as a possible measure - just some warnings and notices from the beginning. Also participants consider the whole program to be more educational and preventive rather than having only punishing goals. They do not like the fact that the program and future agreement got an image of forcing in the press.
Apparently, the White House is also involved in the negotiations and takes its stand, however its role in the whole process is not clear now.
Taking into consideration all recent lawsuits (some of them seem to be absolutely ridiculous for internet users and not that proved), making agreements between RIAA/MPAA and internet service providers are inevitable, clear 'game rules' must be set up later or earlier.
What do you think about the future of these negotiations and thus internet 'rules'?