US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Is Dead

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Have any of you guys ever actually received a warning from your ISP for downloading pirated content? Regardless of whether you ever did or not, that system is now dead, as the Center of Copyright Information has killed their “six-strikes” program, where major ISPs would send notices to downloaders to “educate online pirates.” Gee, I wonder if VPNs had anything to do with this.

…the Copyright Alert System members have just ended their efforts. “After four years of extensive consumer education and engagement, the Copyright Alert System will conclude its work,” the members of the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) just announced. “The program demonstrated that real progress is possible when content creators, Internet innovators and consumer advocates come together in a collaborative and consensus-driven process.” It’s unclear what progress the members are referring to, as the system mostly excelled at its failure to share information with the public.
 
Most pirates moved to VPNs for torrents or moved to the ever-growing number of illegal streaming websites. Six strikes was a joke.
 
Never got a notice but Comcast send me a subpoena with John Doe name on it that they received asking for my IP information for a copy violation. I got one directly from the copyright lawyers a week later asking for me call them. I tossed them out and never heard from it again.
 
Coming from the MSO side of things I can tell you we as a group kind of balked at it and the DMCA stuff for two reasons.

1. They wanted us to spend time and resources irritating and punishing our customers which was expensive and bad for business.
2. They wanted us to be held legally responsible. Like it was on us to be the evidence locker when they went to court and kick out the bill for database tracking which was eventually deemed illegal.

Granted now that the corporate police state has moved into office there's no reason to believe once they have a majority in the supreme court here in a couple months they won't spin all this DMCA shit back up again.

For myself I figured out a long time ago. Don't share. Thats it. Don't torrent don't P2P of any kind. Suck it up and spend the $15 bucks a month or whatever for a file loading subscription. If you're too cheap for that then I hope getting sued and having your credit ruined over a shit rip of Doctor strange was worth it.
 
vegeta535 said:
Never got a notice but Comcast send me a subpoena with John Doe name on it that they received asking for my IP information for a copy violation. I got one directly from the copyright lawyers a week later asking for me call them. I tossed them out and never heard from it again.
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Why would Comcast have to ask for your IP info? Wouldn't they already have that information?
 
So they backed away... explaining that they gave folks every chance. They assumed pirates didn't understand how the law worked. Clearly they want to break the law.

I am sure they now feel they have a good chance to get the laws bent the way they would prefer with Trump. Their argument seems simple... we gave them every chance and assumed they where good people, but we where wrong they're not good people and we are loosing American jobs.

I feel for you poor American Internet users I think the fun you have been having with these clowns is about to get a whole lot more interesting.
 
Had letters from Charter.

One time we had a letter and it said to login to the account and view what the file was there. It wasn't where the letter said to find it so we called. Since my wife was the owner of the account I had to get her on the phone with myself and the Charter agent.

It was an adult movie lol and guess who downloaded it? Muah! Good thing she has a sense of humor. ;)
 
The cynic in me thinks the RIAA/MPAA is seeing potential in passing more draconian measures through lobbying considering our accelerating transition to kleptocracy.
 
The only notice I ever received was from Napster asking for my contact information to forward to Metallica. I refused and switched
To Napigator and never looked back. Never got a notice since then.
 
Mike89 said:
Yeah fuck em, I'm on a VPN 24/7
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Who's to say your VPN provider doesn't do the same or analyze your traffic...

Regarding six strikes, good riddance. Though I feel content provides should put effort into bringing better value and quality to their content instead of trying to go after pirates. Despite their pirating losses, they've been having some of the most producing years in terms of income. If they give more reasons to get people to pay for content everyone will win. Some folks will pirate no matter what but most do because entertaintment industry screws them or artificially limits use of their products.
 
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