I don't have time to analytically fact-check all that will follows, but if someone would do a service it would be appreciated. Here is the cut-out: "Six Strikes is here. Beginning today, AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users. That's right. The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content. Click here to tell the ISPs: no cyber-snooping, no punitive new copyright rules. After a year of back room dealing with the MPAA and RIAA, the nation's top ISPs have agreed to use the so-called "Copyright Alert System" (or "Six Strikes") to go after customers suspected of file-sharing Following a series of escalating warnings, the plan would allow ISPs to slow down, or "throttle," the Internet connection of suspected copyright violators. And if you want to contest the accusation? That will cost you $35."