ISP overlords?
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- imakethepictures
What are the Qoob's thoughts on this?
- prophetone0
guilty before proven innocent
- mg330
Now I'm really going to have to get my wife to stop using that damn SoulSeek.
- mg330
And, can't wait to hear my father in law AGAIN tell me that this is because "Obama wants to know every website you're looking at."
- moldero0
Stop Online Piracy Act was some scary shit. would have never worked though, too drastic, this is more the edward bernays way, chip away little by little so we dont really notice/care.
- imakethepictures0
^ That's kinda what I thought moldero. It seems like they already had this response in the works, judging by how SOPA wasn't rejected very long ago.
Frogs in the kettle, we are.
- ukit20
I thought they were already doing this. They definitely monitor torrents and send out notices to people.
- ukit20
BTW - most people downloading torrents these days use a VPN connection for exactly this reason
- * (quickly googles VPN and on my friend's computer.)imakethepictures
- prophetone0
“We’re moving away from simply rapping people on the hands to try to giving them the info they need to get to various kinds of media content in a way that is both legal, accessible, and cost-effective,” Lesser said.
I'll remember that when I'm looking at a $38.99 copy of Tin Tin on Bluray. But I suppose I can download a more cost-effective, locked-down digital copy for only $24.99 so what am I whining aboot then.
- "We’re moving away from simply raping people" -- fixed it for you.monNom
- < approved®.imakethepictures
- monNom0
They talk about this as though the ISP will be putting the man-hours in to monitor this stuff, but if you look at who stands to benefit, and who has incentive to invest in the people required, it's much more likely that the "copyright holders" are going to get carte blanche access to 'sniff' for infringement.
And by "copyright holders" I assume that they mean only the large media conglomerates like disney. If I, as a content creator, have suspicions that people are sharing my copyrighted material, do I have access to the ISP's logs to 'sniff' for piracy? Un-effing-likely.
- yes, the daily log files for each person will be publicly available for review. haha yeah no but that would be neat.prophetone
- interesting point though for sureprophetone
- ukit20
I imagine they would outsource the whole job to some kind of web security company. Huge $$$ to whoever gets that contract.
- zaq0
really? How about this:
- ukit20
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorre…
"In a few months millions of BitTorrent users in the United States will be actively monitored as part of an agreement between the MPAA, RIAA and all the major ISPs.
While the CCI is confident that the alerts are an effective way of deterring online piracy we have our doubts. For one, the monitoring system is relatively easy to bypass through a proxy or VPN. Secondly, the multi-million dollar plan only covers a few of the many sources of online piracy.
The millions of U.S. Internet users who download via cyberlockers and streaming portals are not affected by this agreement at all, as these downloads are impossible for third parties to track."
- mg330
Just saw this:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/06/…