ISPs make agrement with RIAA/MPAA

[Steamer]

Their claim from the first link in the artical (the sixstrikes PDF)

19. Isn’t this just about ISPs trying to reduce online traffic?
• No. The fastest-growing segment of web traffic is legal online content that
subscribers will be encouraged to use. Access to lawful content services is
expanding rapidly, and ISPs are seeing more households add broadband service
and TV service at the same time. According to Nielsen, the number of
households with both a broadband connection and a home television subscription
increased in the last year from 61% to 66% of households.

Yea.. Ok... Netflix? Lies.

[StarsMine]

Netflix is taking massive ammounts of bandwidth. ONlive to for those who use it (massive, really massive)

[Steamer]

Yes.. And ISP's are against that. Mostly the ones with television services also (which is most, more so with Comcast and AT&T). I remember when they where QQ'ing about broadband costs associated with these "bandwidth hogs"...

This one pretty much explains what I'm trying to sum up. http://articles.philly.com/2010-12-0...us-genachowski

Man they are fucking stupid in their PR statements / repercussion document's. Such blatant lies.

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

Typical American service provider attitudes. This should surprise no one.

Most smaller ISP's route their traffic through a larger ISP's "pipes". Trust me, you will be affected one way or another.

I read about this a month ago. Expected them to go through with it. No surprise to me. As Zero pretty much summed up, it's more of a bandwidth / money issue for the ISP than copyright infringement "education".

That kind of transit traffic isn't pushed through a BRAS, though. If your ISP doesn't participate, then you won't be affected.

[Derezzler]

Yeah, my ISP does not even honor cease and desists. Its a owned by Lafayette Consolidated Government and all they care about is making money.

[elpolloloco]

I was reading up on this. So technically there's no fine or jail time. It's basically just getting the ISP's to annoy the fuck out of you with alerts/popups/redirects warning you.

Technically it isn't THAT bad, but I just see this as a stepping stone. You get the framework built to monitor everything, talk the ISP's into it easily because they won't be "penalizing" their customers, just warning them. The ISP's say "ok it's not that bad" and agree.

THEN the RIAA gets congress to allow them to use the already built framework to financially penalize people.

Step 1.. collect underpants

Step 2...

Step 3.. MAKE MONEY!

[StarsMine]

You can still encrypt you data. Its not like the isps are giving the mpaa our info. Mpaa will just be doing wht the normally do and collect the isps who download a spicific file and sena letter down the line. Just now the isps will keep track of the letters