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Movie Studios Want Automated BitTorrent Warnings

Posted by Soulskill on from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.

daria42 writes "The lawsuit filed by movie and TV studios against Australian Internet service provider iiNet appears to have taken a new twist, with the studios using early judgments in the case to attempt to push other ISPs towards what it has described as a 'standardized automated processing system' for BitTorrent copyright infringement notices that would integrate with the ISPs' networks and automatically forward messages to customers when they were sent by the studios."

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  1. "We want to spam all your customers at will..." by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "...but it's too much trouble to do it ourselves. You do it for us."

  2. ISP response: sure, studios - here's the BILL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The ideal ISP response to this would be to agree and then send the studios a bill at, say, $10000 per notification to cover "costs". Hollywood accounting works both ways...

  3. Yep. This is not a free country. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just notify EVERYONE. They're all dirty pirates, right?

    Yeah. That's how America works these days.

    Treat everyone as a terrorist - search them at airports, train stations, on the road, etc - ever been for radiation therapy? Look out!

    Everyone is a potential meth addict - gotta show your driver's license to get 10 pills of Sudafed!

    Everyone is a drunk driver - that's why there are road blocks where they stop everyone to see if they're drunk - sucks when you're working weekend nights and you're automatically considered a drunk!

    On the internet? Well, you're pirating and downloading child porn unless proven innocent!