ISP's "Six Strikes Your Out" plan

Jeanwah wrote:

Sign the petition: http://act.demandprogress.org/act/six_s ... e%3Dauto-e

Do these ever work?

Drifting makes good points.
However, until we start fully apprising just what's behind anymore censorship issues — I APPOSE ALL OF EM!
Jeanwah, I registered such on you link. I too hope it works.

hedonist wrote:

dancepartner wrote:

Drifting makes good points.
However, until we start fully apprising just what's behind anymore censorship issues — I APPOSE ALL OF EM!
Jeanwah, I registered such on you link. I too hope it works.

Wait - is this about censorship or downloading/paying what you should for what you get (or not DL'ing at all)?

Two very different issues.

Hedonist, good point & I'm glad you asked.
Here, I'll 'copy' from Wikipedia this time -- at least I always give credit to whom I've copied from! :?
Hope that helps me during the penalty phase....
"The copyright alert system, also known as the six strikes program,[1] is a graduated response framework for the United States, agreed upon by participating ISPs and Intellectual property organizations in which a third-party will monitor file-sharing networks, collect the IP addresses of suspected copyright infringement, and submit the IP addresses to ISPs who will in turn issue the suspected infringer a copyright alert."

Please notice CAS is not specific to copyright infringement of movie & music only. While trying to find a consise list of what's 'censored', I've found the list is still vague but developing; (see copyrightinformation.org)
This newfound tidbit makes me wonder why this list is not a frontrunner to a system now implemented? Why is it so hard to put trackers on the data in which people don't want pirated? ASCAAP & BMI are paid to work in behalf of musicians for this very thing, why are they not the ones to be censoring who just nabbed a copy of something they need to pay for? Why then, can't they turn in repeated offenders for prosecution of what is law just like all other laws?

Hedonist, I don't know much about this stuff but I'm not alone. The internet is an ever-evolving bohemeth data field where gov's are also scrambling to try & stay ahead of it being used for things such as child porn, terrorism & artistic piracy. For myself, I still buy CD's. I love to support artists in this manner & I hope CD's don't become a thing of the past as did LP's, so I certainly want artists to keep creating & I wished people would simply raise their standards & stop pirating. Their pathetic behavior is what's giving other control measures a foothold into the land of the big www. & I passionately want this land to remain OUR domain, not a governments or big business land to censor.

Oh, by the way, here's a definition of censorship & why I use it: "the actions or practices of censors; especially: censorial control exercised repressively".

Also, while the penalty phase for actual music & movie pirates might deserve being treated in this manner, I don't like how the rest of us will be treated; the ones not guilty, the ones guilty of copyright issues not related to music & movies. (Copied from Wikipedia also) "Customers found in violation who believe an error has been made may not appeal individual errors until the process has reached the mitigation stage. At that point the customer will pay $35 and will then be informed of the number of Alerts that need to be invalidated to avoid mitigation. The customer may not question errors until the penalty is applied, and then has only 14 days in which to pay the application fee, be informed of the number of errors that must be identified in order to succeed and formally appeal the penalization decision."

This is backwards. We will be treated guilty first, absolved only after this "fair & partial process"?

Thanks for taking the time to clarify, DP!