Posted on 10/21/2012 5:08:25 PM PDT by Orange1998
It is about to get a bit more difficult to illegally download TV shows, movies or music online.
A new alert system, rolling out over the next two months, will repeatedly warn and possibly punish people violating digital copyrights. The Copyright Alert System was announced last July and has been four years in the making.
If you use AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, or Verizon as your Internet service provider, you could receive the first of one of these notes starting in the next two months.
The Internet provider is delivering the message, but the legwork is being done by the copyright owners, which will monitor peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent.
They use a service called MarkMonitor, which uses a combination of people and automated systems to spot illegal downloading. It will collect the IP addresses of offenders, but no personal information. The IP addresses are turned over to the Internet providers, which will match up the address with the right customer and send the notification.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
After the educational phase, the customers will be asked to acknowledge that they received the warning. If they continue to download content illegally, the alerts will threaten mild punishments, such as forcing the copyright violator to read "educational materials," or throttling their Internet connection so that it is slow, making it harder to download large files.
The signal can’t be stopped..
Use a proxy. Stream, don’t download. In short, yawn.
Use a proxy. Stream, don’t download. In short, yawn.
Use a proxy. Stream, don’t download. In short, yawn.
How would they know?
This ought to stimulate the creation of all kinds of new countermeasures and alternatives, which of course will be free for downloading...
I’m assuming that they will simply monitor your bandwidth usage. You will then be presumed a pirate if you use a lot of bandwidth.
It’s more of the “you prove your innocence”, otherwise you are guilty.
From one of the comments:
“... if the industry wants to get into a technology war with a bunch of teenagers... they will loose. “
LOL! Our kids can’t learn to spell, but they can get what they want off the internet.
Maybe the answer for ‘content providers’ is to require downloading to be taught in school by NEA union members...
In what way is streaming pirated copies of copyright material different from shoplifting the CD, DVD, or Blu-ray version?
Internet radio is legal, regulated, and pays royalties.
Large download monitoring would imply coverage of Usenet...
>> that software program watches for large downloads
heh... I wonder if keeping your windoze software up-to-date with service packs trips the trigger. :-)
Does anyone even “download” movies anymore? Why create hard copies or tie up space when everything is out there a click away?
That’s why I included the word “pirated” in my first post.
I don’t have any problem with paid streaming sites, such as Netflix, either.
whether you “agree” or not...
http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-artists-rejoice-megabox-is-not-dead-120621/
Problem solved. Overseas seed boxes in friendly to violations of copyright laws.
Then use a secure connection to FTP in to your seed box and download your files.
It’s a lot of work to save 5 or 10 bucks on a movie. But people do it.
For mac users use a proxy app like Netshade.
My question is, what TV show or recent movie is even worth downloading illegally?
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