AT&T to start sending copyright warnings
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversAT&T Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.
The phone company thus joins other major ISPs that either go beyond legal requirements or interpret their duties under the law to mean that they have to forward such notices.
Jim Cicconi, AT&T's top executive in Washington, confirmed this week that the company is looking to expand a trial program it ran late last year with movie studios. It is currently testing a system with the Recording Industry Association of America and will expand the program with other rights organizations.
Comcast Corp., Cox Communications Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. already forward such notices, but the approaches differ, and the legal situation is muddled.
Copyright holders like movie studios can, in many cases, identify Internet users who download or provide pirated material by their numerical Internet address, but cannot match it up with a subscriber name without the cooperation of the Internet service provider.
ISPs have previously identified their customers to copyright holders who bring court orders. The copyright holders and their representatives, like the RIAA, have then been able to sue the customers.
But that strategy had been widely criticized, and the RIAA said late last year it was abandoning its policy of filing lawsuits, opting instead to work with ISPs to cut abusers' access if they ignore repeated warnings. At the time, the RIAA said it agreed with several leading ISPs, without naming which ones, to notify alleged illegal file-sharers and cut off service if they failed to stop.
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Comments(9)
do i read this right that isp's are agreeing to lose 30-40% of their clients?
maybe isp's should demand the riaa reinburse them for their lost client base??
im just wondering, how do they find out if your downloading pirated material?
um ive already gotten disconnected 2 with letters in the mail, for a movie torrent and
game torrent, a third time ur banned from the att server!! and theres no other cable
internet service around here, id have to get fukin dsl wtf..............
solution is mask surf pro by thanksoft
[anyone trying to id your ip - can't]
haha yeh buddy i like that one..think i am going to look for peerguardian now and have it
backed up in case my isp starts this warning s^&$%.
yes they will for a fact lose a lot of business. it is not their responsibility to
monitor or warn you of the fact that you may be downloading copyright material until such
time a law is passed stating so. this total violates an individual’s right to privacy.
this will backfire in there face.
ive been using vuze for torrents and d/led an ip list for the built in ip blocker i havnt
gotten a third notice forlike 2 months so it must e workin......i hope or time to start a
new acc in my gfs name.........
this stuff blows. why now those madafires teamed up? something's fishy here & nothing
will stop me now... well, x-cept my parents, but yeah.
get wit it people.
pg + iblocklist = downloads all freakin day
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So. ISP's are willing to lose 30-40%
By GrandPa on 29.03.2009 - 00:03