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ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops

Posted by timothy on from the best-of-europe-and-australia-coming-soon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wendy Seltzer, Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, talks about the new plan by ISPs and content providers to 'crack down on what users can do with their internet connections' using a 6-step warning system to curb online copyright infringement."

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  1. Please moderate your tone by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wikipedia says she's a lawyer who founded Chilling Effects and used to work for the EFF.

  2. 16billion in loses? by arbiter1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is numbers from movie and music companies, Sure we all remember story's in the past of these companies inflating their loses to make it look worse then it was.

  3. Re:But why do ISPs care? by Imrik · · Score: 4, Informative

    ISPs are not common carriers, they were granted some of the benefits that common carriers get but without the obligations.