After yet another delay, the “six strikes“ anti-piracy program is set to be enforced from early 2013 in the U.S., the Center for Copyright Information announced.

The program is aimed at persistent online pirates and consists of a series of six increasingly severe alerts from their Internet service provider. The “strikes” can ultimately include speed throttling, temporary connection cut-offs and copyright reeducation.

Five major ISPs are members of this initiative: AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. The Motion Picture and Recording Industry Associations of America and the major associations that represent independent film and music producers will be the ones notifying ISPs of users pirating content in order to send the letters.


The “six strikes“ copyright alert system was initially announced in July 2011 and scheduled to launch in December of that year. Then the launch was pushed back to July 2012, then to the end of this year again. Now, the Center for Copyright Information’s executive director, Jill Lesser, said there is yet another delay.

“Due to unexpected factors largely stemming from Hurricane Sandy, which have seriously affected our final testing schedules, CCI anticipates that the participating ISPs will begin sending alerts under the Copyright Alert System in the early part of 2013, rather than by the end of the year.

“We need to be sure that all of our ‘I’s are dotted and ‘T’s crossed before any company begins sending alerts, and we know that those who are following our progress will agree,” Lesser added.

Appealing one of these letters won’t be free. Users who believe they’ve been wrongly accused of copyright infringement will have to pay a $35 filing fee to get an independent review by the American Arbitration Association, but you will get this money back if the appeal decides in your favor. So Who Are They Targeting Torrent Sits People That Are Downloading Movies & Songs/MP3's or All Share Sites

 

now we have to start with using VPN ?

 

ya i'm just finding out about VPN i wonder how complicated that is going to be ? and is it going to work ?

PS,, i'm Shue some one will figure it out and let every one know

 

Someone needs to make a new filesharing client that makes file transfers look like video streaming or some other protocol so it can't be detected.

 

See some one will figure something out

 

seems like every thing started going down hill about a year ago when i think it was mega load or something like that got shout down and they started to block uploading sites to the US

 

vpn is a business setup you need a vpn security pcmia or pci card it logs in encrypted and isnt a option to the average user, so who ever started this vpn crap talk is a moron...

 

VPN is a network.
Authentication method to log in a VPN can be a smartcard as you say; but it doesn't have to, it can be a simple login:password like on this forum.
If one logs in facebook and setup his router to use bittorrent, he's got enough skills to setup a VPN.

Problem moron?

 

Woe! This sounds really moronic from someone that doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. *yes* *yes* *yes*

It is true that VPNs can be run either as software on a server or PC, or offloaded to a dedicated hardware device (PCI or PCMCIA network cards mostly used for intranet), but to limit this just to hardware is off the wall. No PCI card needed - at least for me! I've been using VPN software all along and all you need is first to install the program and afterwards drag a few files into the program box. Then through a mere user's name and password you connect to the network and voila - you're on.

Depending on the company you're using, you might have to do some small configuration (i.e. router/firewall adjustment). Some require more, others less (i.e. most of them have good internet support). In my case, I didn't have to do anything with mine. After installation, it went in like a bullet and is stable like a rock. My carrier supports Windows (XP, Vista, 7), Apple (OS X, IPhone) and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Android, etc). Most of them do!

It's not rocket science technology! The average user knowing "one or two things" about computers can easily handle it. As PMS rightly said it, the process is quite similar to AudioZ. When you start your computer, you have a choice of using your own IP address or instead clicking the VPN icon on the desktop. If your choice is VPN (you might have to run as administrator), when the GUI shows up on the screen, you write the user's name/password and immediately you'll be surfing with an encrypted IP address (i.e. an attacker would only see an encrypted data tunnel which they cannot understand) from somewhere around the world making your usage untraceable. It's just as simple as that. It hasn't slow down my DL speed for either File sharing or P2P torrent in the lest bit (in fact, it seems like it's running faster). Plus you'll get the benefit to access just about any sites and filesharing hosts that you're blocked from using due to restrictions by your country. You can try it for a month. Nothing to lose and everything to gain!

And remember, if you're planning to use VPN make sure to get a company that doesn't keep logs (read the vendor's fine print or check the list in TorrentFreak before using PayPal). Like it happens with everything else, there are good and bad VPN's around. If you get taken with some incompatible vendor products, you'll be wasting your hard earned money - and who knows what!