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."
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Edited by Teh Sun King: 2/28/2013 12:02:20 PM[quote]Following a series of escalating warnings, the plan would allow ISPs to slow down, or "throttle," the Internet connection of suspected copyright violators.[/quote]they already do that to people who consistently go over their monthly download limit as well as suspected copyright violators anyway.
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Proxies...VPN... If you need to do something illegal you might as well do it fully hidden. Also if you are a pirate at least buy the product you torrented eventually to support the creators of it.
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9 Replies>2013 >Not using proxies
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I see no BT on that list. :D
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2 RepliesEdited by o0MrCheesy0o: 2/28/2013 10:38:26 AMDon't download pirated material. Simple as that. I'm in favor of measures to stop piracy - if you're not doing anything wrong there's nothing to complain about.
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As far as I know, it's only users of BitTorrent. And as others have already mentioned, they've been doing it for a while now, this just effectively forces them to scrutinise more and take action.
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3 RepliesEdited by Ya Boy Sam: 2/28/2013 10:27:20 AMSo? They've been doing this for a while now. Switch to a different ISP. Or you could, you know, not download things illegally?
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I was only wondering the other day when something like this would happen.