Hello everyone!

A few months back, while still living in Asia (just moved back to the West Coast [US] 2 weeks ago), I placed an article in AudioSex warning of the coming "six strike plan" created by the MPAA, RIAA and some ISP's providers. It means that Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner, and Cablevision, are set to roll out new systems for monitoring and responding to possible copyright infringement (mailnly for P2P activities - but don't disregard the rest). According to Cary Sherman (the RIAA CEO), this sinister plan was going to be implemented in the beginning of July, but for some reason, it was postponed to the end of the year (especially now that the cyber-security bill failed in the US Senate). If you're using one of these ISP's providers, you know what to do in order to protect yourself = Give them the right foot of fellowship and send them packin' home. Folks, like I said before, the best way to hit back is by hit 'em in their pocketbooks (money talks). Here is an explanation of the "six strike plan" that is not covered by TorrenFreak in the article below:

•First: 2 Warnings will be issued to notify you that activities have been noticed on your connection.

•Next: You’ll receive 2 letters that require that you confirm you have indeed received them. With these letters there will be some educational material you will be required to use.

•Finally: For their last two steps there is a list, (hasn’t been fully disclosed yet.) for the ISP’s to choose from. Throttling, blocking websites, and temporary suspension of service are on the list. But it has been stated that none of the providers have agreed to termination of services.

Some online activists are saying that the accused is automatically presumed guilty, and the only recourse to for appeal or denial will cost the customer $35 to file.

A word of caution! In the article below, Sonic.net says that they will not participate in the six strike plan because they're not technologically equipped and they haven't been asked by the MPAA, RIAA to do so. The question is, "What would happen if the MPAA and RIAA not only ask them to do it, but also provide the means to do it?" Something to think about!

People downloading pirate software will have to use public Wifi and wireless networks or better, VPN and Proxy services. With a VPN service, you're able to connect your computer to another computer through an encrypted tunnel. At this point, your computer will make a request using the internet connection of the remote computer. This insures that you aren't spied on, because the data transmitted through the VPN tunnel will also be encrypted. So even if a hacker, (or ISP,) manages to gets into your VPN tunnel, the garbage they get will be unintelligible due to the encryption. We don't know for how long VPN will be available, but while it still exist, why not take advantage of it?

There still a good numnber of ISP's providers that have not joint in this scheme yet (Cox etc). So it's time to do our home work and look what's the safest and best deal for us!

Light59. Cheers!
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Has Your ISP Joined the US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme?​

TorrentFreak
Ernesto
August 3, 2012

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Later this year, the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) will start to track down ‘pirates’ as part of an agreement all major U.S. Internet providers struck with the MPAA and RIAA.

The parties agreed on a system through which copyright infringers are warned that they are breaking the law. After six warnings ISPs may then take a variety of repressive measures, which include slowing down offenders’ connections and temporary disconnections.

While we’ve written a fair number of articles on the topic, many people assume that all ISPs are part of the agreement. However, this is certainly not the case. In fact, only five Internet providers have agreed to send out warnings to their customers.

In alphabetical order these are AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon.

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In total the ISPs above cover roughly 75% of all U.S. broadband internet customers. This is significant, but it nonetheless begs the question – why are the rest of the providers not involved?

Quite a few prominent names are not listed. Centurylink, Charter and Cox all have millions of subscribers, but are not taking part in the “six strikes” scheme. Not to forget the 100+ smaller providers across the United States who are also missing in action.

TorrentFreak contacted several of the larger Internet providers above to find out why, but they were reluctant to comment on their motivations. A Cox spokesperson was most vocal and said that they “have decided not to participate for internal reasons.”

Luckily Dane Jasper, CEO of the much smaller Sonic.net, was willing to comment on the efforts to make ISPs responsible for online piracy. He told TorrentFreak that ISPs are not setup to police the Internet and that the entertainment industries should look for a solution closer to home: “ISPs provide an essential utility: connection. We are not equipped to police the actions of individuals. I think history has shown that you cannot solve piracy by force, but that industries need to adapt around it with business models that allow consumers to access the content they want easily and at a not-unreasonable cost.”

However, the above is not the reason why Sonic.net isn’t taking part in the “six strikes” scheme. As it turns out, the RIAA and MPAA never bothered to ask Sonic and many other smaller Internet providers to join in: “It isn’t because we refused, but because we were not asked. I know at least 100 small to medium ISPs through my trade association memberships, and have heard of no independent ISPs being approached at all,” Jasper says.

It’s not clear why they were left out, but it’s likely that it would have been too much trouble to reach consensus with so many parties involved.

When it comes to finding a solution to online piracy Sonic.net’s CEO is clear. The entertainment industries should ensure their legal offering is superior in terms of convenience and availability compared to that offered by pirates.

Jasper believes that taking away people’s incentive to pirate is key, and he mentions Pandora and Spotify as good examples of services that are able to deflate piracy: “The point is that the music business has had to evolve to survive, moving away from albums and record stores to more innovative methods of distribution that consumers have responded to rather than turning to piracy out of an unwillingness to participate in the old model. I suspect that Apple TV, Roku and Netflix have similar beneficial effects on video, but a lack of uniform availability plus rather high prices and restrictive viewing terms hold back this solution,” Jasper concludes.

The MPAA and RIAA would not directly disagree that innovation is an important factor to curb piracy. But nonetheless, they hope that warning emails will also help. That people can bypass the scheme by using a VPN, cyberlockers, or even switching ISPs doesn’t change a thing.

At this point it is still unknown when the first warning letters will be sent. It is expected that the first ISPs will start later this year, and each will roll out their participation at their own pace.

 

yeah, no ones going to force me to do anything.

•First: 2 Warnings will be issued to notify you that activities have been noticed on your connection. - dont care.

•Next: You’ll receive 2 letters that require that you confirm you have indeed received them. With these letters there will be some educational material you will be required to use. - Not confirming anything, not being required to use anything and switching to a different ISP faster than a sailor reaches for a rubber.

The only way anything like that could ever work is if every ISP in the world was on board, creating a monopoly, which is illegal, and then again no one can require you to do anything, except the government. And even then there are constitutional limitations.

 

@Jobs

The six strikes system is officially helmed by an industry coalition called the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). Caroline Langdale, a press contact for the six strikes system, told the Daily Dot: “We expect our implementation to begin later this year, with each of the ISPs launching at potentially overlapping but different times,” she added. So this is not a matter of if, but when. When this system is fully implemented, the public will receive specific information through their ISP's providers stipulating the possible consequences for copyright violation! At this point, if you get caught, you could still switch ISP providers, but you will still have to pay for copyright infringement!

By the way, in this day and age, the words "illegal," "government" and "unconstitutional" mean the same thing! Take the Afghanistan and Iraq wars for example. They both were illegal and unconstitutional, but the government did it anyway. Henry Kissinger, a high ranking Illuminati insider, once said: "The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer." Make no mistake about it. There are no constitutional limitations for corrupted governments. For more information ask Bush and Obama. Lol!

 

• Guns avaiable at gun fares (in UK we call them Car boot sales)
• Low social Mobility compared to most countries
• Less Civil Liberties than UK
• 2 Pin Electricity. no earth wire
• Constant TV adds.
• Unhealthy food is really cheap and available everywhere
• Death penalty - (dates of death get moved around for political reasons - prisoners say goodbye to families 30 times)
• Private Prisons and the biggest prison population

USA sounds tough compared to UK

although weed is legal or something. ...pretty good...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg

 

This sounds similar to what happened to a friend of mine about 5 years a go.
He got letters from Warner bros about a film he down load and a few weeks later BT his ISP throttled
back his speed and they wanted to charge him for the a £1 a Gig for 500GB's he download that month
when he was on a unlimited download service.

but its all right for the ISP to charge you £1 a gig for going
over your monthly limit and this money stays in pocket of the ISP

You see the thing is the music & film say there losing money
and they say its people downloading BS.

It's the fact like all the big Bands like U2 and the rest of the big acts
have all cut out the middle man (the record company) and are doing it all them self's

And also Max Keiser says the film INC has not made a profit in the last 30 years