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US ISPs Delay Rollout of "Six Strikes" Copyright Enforcement Framework
zacharye writes with an excerpt from BGR: "The new 'six strikes' anti-piracy policy soon to be implemented by a number of major Internet service providers in the United States will reportedly stumble out of the gate. The policy, which is set to be adopted by Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and other ISPs, will see action taken against users caught downloading pirated files in six steps, ultimately resulting in bandwidth throttling or even service suspensions. The system responsible for managing the new policy may not be ready on schedule, however, and the targeted launch date of July 12th may slip back as a result..."
why I'm not going to switch our company Internet access to Comcast.
“The dates mentioned in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) are not hard deadlines but were intended to keep us on track to have the Copyright Alert System up and running as quickly as possible and in the most consumer friendly manner possible,” a spokesperson told us.
“We do not intend to launch until we are confident that the program is consumer friendly and able to be implemented in a manner consistent with all of the goals of the MOU. We expect our implementation to begin later this year.”
The CCI, however, ensured TorrentFreak that none of the ISPs has plans to terminate the accounts of subscribers. Temporary disconnections remain as one of the possible punishments. Which measures the various ISPs will choose remains a mystery for now. We’ll publish more on this and other details of the scheme in the near future.
Temporary disconnections? Is one required to pay for the disconnected service. How is this consumer friendly?
*plays the world's tiniest violin*
Throttle everyone on the basis of piracy! No need for network expansions! The shareholders will go wild!
Don't they mean users "accused" of downloading? As it seems to me, all that is required is an accusation by some asshole MAFIAA goon. It's not like they actually prove their accusations or anything.
Forget 3 strikes. Forget 6 strikes. I have a simple 37 step plan for dealing with this widespread phenomenon. Buy my bestseller book and read all about it.
and all of those other things. People will go where they can't be traced as easily and download all that they can, then local establishments will take the hit, and then when all those options are gone, some unsuspecting family will be hit next because I didn't configure their wireless connection to be secured.
I don't agree with pirating, but I feel this is also just going to backfire.
Life takes interesting turns, but the most interest is when you're off the beaten path.
That link should "users caught uploading" not "users caught downloading".
I'm sure that none of the content that you're pirating comes from the US...
Who are they hoodwinking? Just recently, a US judge ruled that you cannot identify a "pirate" using an IP address. They appear to be preparing to flog a dead horse, right?
There ain't no such thing.
Everything on the Internet is Copyrighted (or public domain)...
There may be illegal sharing. Or making available. Just not downloading.
Of course the "Industry" wants to plant a meme -- "illegal downloading".
Since there is no such thing (as illegal downloading(*)), usenet groups have been cut first (because usenet clients do NOT upload as they download). Peer-to-peer systems upload from clients, which is why they got hit.
MegaUpload? A shot across the bow -- and the service ended up being legal.
Advice: Turn off sharing in your bittorrent client, unless you are sure that you can distribute the material.
Or fetch the material from usenet, ftp, or other "one-way" means. Do not post the material on Web Sites, ftp servers or usenet -- do not make it available for download.
Unless you live somewhere more enlightened, of course (Personal Copy Exemption in Canada, for example).
(*) Except for specific material, child porn, hate literature, other material, depending on venue.
Just another "Cubible(sic) Joe" 2 17 3061
How does something like this affect Usenet users? Are they going to assume all Usenet traffic is for "illegal" stuff?
This will only serve to improve online privacy and anonymity technology, making it more robust, resilient, and secure---putting these companies and their attacks on Internet users in the same category as any other online criminals, right where they belong.
Liberty in your lifetime
Don't delay TV show DVDs until 3/4 of the way through the next season and I won't pirate the shows!
TOR, TOR, TOR! The more people who use The Onion Router, the better. There will need to be some brave souls out there to run Exit Nodes as they will be the ones targeted if, or when, accusations begin flying.
If they try to ban TOR in the United States, we _ALL_ simply stand up to our government and say "WHAT?!? I was under the impression the United States government espoused a belief in Freedom and Democracy for all people. Why do you think I run TOR? I do it to support those people who wish to communicate freely and throw off their oppressors! Since you are trying to ban TOR in the United States, , I presume you no longer support the struggles of those people who are being crushed by oppressive regimes? It seems to me, , that you actually want to turn the United States into an oppressive police state where the individual is much less important than a corporation, in violation of the Constitution of these United States. Didn't you swear an oath to uphold and defend said document?"
Never give them a chance to bullshit their way out of it. Hit them hard, hit them fast, and keep hitting them with the "So, you work for the corporations now? You certainly are no longer representing the People." and so on. Hey, if they can use "Think of the children??" then we, the People, can damn well use all of the above to get them to back down.
This is still a free country... right?
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Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
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The tighter the fist squeezes, the more that slips through the fingers.
Did the U.S. finally sneak a law through or is this a private action on the part of the ISPs?
If the latter, is it not collusion for these multiple companies to simultaneously implement this system? And, if there is no law, how will they defend it from a legal perspective? They shouldn't be able to switch contract terms for existing subscribers.
This all sounds like a massive opportunity for a class action lawyer and competitive ISPs to eat these company's lunches. Or, perhaps the bleating sheep like it in the pooper.
>but I feel this is also just going to backfire
This is probably why the implementation date is slipping. The ISPs might be waking up to the shitstorm that comes when they roll this out.
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Palm trees and 8
Well, knowing that big ISPs are planning on roamming wifi networks for their subscribers as a next step to "increase coverage". I'm thinking they will be running coffee shop wifis and tracking you down anyways.
Perhaps we should consider the nuclear option. This would be to simply destroy these big telecoms and labels that won't stop attacking internet freedom because of some copying. They are not hurting for money despite piracy and they pay the artists little, leaving the bands to survive on performance only.
Step 1. Free CD/DVD day. People all over the world burn all the music they can find onto DVD and CD-R's and pass them out on the street or leave them in places for people to find like bus seats, subway seats. Stick them in newspapers and free auto or rental property booklets you find at grocery stores and shopping malls. This will spread things around and cripple these goons financially. This will target the RIAA since they are the worst offender. Send a strong message by demolishing the last 3 or 4 big labels and leaving the RIAA in total ruin. Avoid hurting any indie labels if possible. We will need them later.
Step 2. For movies, push hard for a "Steam" like solution where you can buy once, redownload if you lose a copy and run it on any player. The MPAA members can go with this or they can face the fate of the RIAA. I think given that choice, they will go with the steam method and find that it actually increases sales and profits, especially on older stuff that can be put on sale at times.
Step 3. For music, it would be good to see a community form where most music gets shared freely and the artists make a living from live performance. They already do this now, the difference is that they rely on the big labels recording studios and for distribution. The internet can handle distribution easily. Just share. Bands would hire local micro studios to record in and let the experts there do the mixing and other work involved in polishing their album. Since tech is cheap now you don't have to be a multi billion dollar label to set up a studio. You just need some enthusiasts with know how and a few thousand dollars in computers and other equipment and local bands can come record for a reasonable fee. Production is cheap. CD burners, usb sticks and the internet. The band lives off of t-shirts and performance like today. The difference? No big labels to kowtow to and sign your rights away to forever. I think that is a win-win for everyone except the RIAA. The smaller indie labels will form the first micro-studios used by local bands to record.
I wonder who will ultimately pay them more, the users or the RIAA/MAFIA? Usually companies go the way of the money... We'll see how long it lasts. On another note, Iran does similar things on the internet, only if you get caught you get killed.
There are two interpretations:
Palm trees and 8
The idea of "common carriers" is going out the window. Now, anyone who provides a network is going to be responsible for what their customers use it for.
That would be like holding government responsible for car accidents, since the government provides the roads. Obviously, this is a very different system, since the users of the roads are legally and financially liable for their use. It should be no different for any other infrastructure.
After they get this last problem with the world under control we will finally be able to live in utopia.
So if you lived in an area where the cable was from one of these companies and the DSL was also from one of these companies, such as Comcast and Verizon, would you move because of this?
So now the copyright industry can afford their private copyright police? Strange considering how piracy is driving them bankrupt.
Wait til they six-strike every bittorrent user off the internet
I thought Activision, which used BitTorrent to distribute updates for its video game World of Warcraft, had too much clout for this to happen.
Should be seeing a significant uptick in new user stats pretty soon...
"Let's go find some Turian and beat the shit out of him
Just because the data can move easily through Comcast's fiber network doesn't mean Comcast doesn't have to pay its own upstream ISPs (Tata and Level 3) for transit. That's why Comcast and other wired ISPs impose a cap on home subscribers, so that the ISPs don't have to overpay for expanding upstream capacity.
I'm starting a download service in the UK.
I will download anything you want and give it to you on a USB thumbdrive for just a quarter pound per GB.
I will do this by parking my car in front of your or your neighbors house and using ripe and juicy unsecured Wi-Fi.
Worked fucking great the first time!
You can't build a system that Bolsheviks and Maoists won't take over. Nature of the beast.
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They can put it in their TOS that the account holder must ensure that no copyright infringement takes place through the account
How can an ISP reasonably expect a subscriber to ensure this? For example, say the subscriber is a songwriter, and he posts videos of himself singing songs he wrote. How can he make sure that those songs aren't by accident substantially similar to some existing song?
But you bet, the deep packet inspection system will be rolled out soon enough.
Oh, the beautiful gloss of greality!
in Europe, we call this "private copy"
Haven't you realized that's what they want? To shut down the Internet?
They don't say it outright, but they very much wish it was 1985 for the rest of us, when less than half the population had a home computer, and the hard drive, if present, was 20M, mp3 didn't exist yet and even if it had the hardware of those days couldn't decode it in real time, and what little data exchange there was happened over 1200 bit/s modems on local BBSes, a few of which participated in FidoNet. Music piracy was possible but limited and inconvenient, with the cassette tape being the best way. They themselves are quite happy to reap the benefits of modern technology, they just don't like the rest of us being able to do so too.
Don't agree with pirating? Futile, and dated of you. Might as well act disapproving of skirts above the ankle, and shocked over the licentiousness of 60's Rock and Roll. What do you think when you run into some senior who is still upset over Elvis the Pelvis? Who thinks the young are all depraved and they and the nation are going to Hell because of the music they listen to and their general disrespect for the traditions that made the country great. You roll your eyes at their cluelessness, that's what. And you ignore them. Dismiss them as a typical "get off my lawn" senior. No use talking to them.
Sharing is here to stay. No amount of force or cajoling will put this genie back in the bottle. Today, you still have lots of company. You and people of similar mind are why ISPs dare to even think of giving in to Big Media to engage in such idiocy as these 3 or 6 strikes efforts. You disagree with the means, but not the goal. That's enough of a green light for them. Often, means and ends cannot be so easily separated. 20 or 30 or 50 years from now, such attitudes will look utterly ridiculous to most everyone, like asking for sunshine without the heat and acting as if that's such a perfectly reasonable expectation that it need not be spoken aloud because that would be insulting to others' intelligence. "You know, something beggable but not leprosy, which is a pain in the ass to be blunt and excuse my French, sir." If you want to stay relevant, you'll have to accept piracy.
Intellectual Property is a monopolistic, selfish, and defective concept. It is "tyranny over the mind of man"
nothing your hollywood is doing last few years is even worth it....
There is a bug in the protocol for WPS - Wifi Protected Setup - which makes it pretty easy to crack. WPS (with a broken protocol) was required by the Wifi alliance if you want a nice sticker on your box (and as a manufacturer you do). Some router firmware won't even let you turn it off.
WEP, old but still needed for some very old clients, is also trivial to crack.
So, there are two currently known semi-trivial ways to get on a huge subset of "protected" Wifi networks. If someone were to log on to your network with those, it would be hard to prove it wasn't your infringement. Ahh, but haven't courts said they can't identify you by IP? True, but this is not a court case, this is a semi-monopolistic ISP that can dictate terms. (In my area, I only have one real choice, Comcast).
Three strikes was bad enough, do we have to stretch a bad analogy so far as to six? How about Pi strikes, or square root of two strikes; the phrase is just as contrived.
They wouldn't be "overpaying"; they would be paying the requisite sum to support the service they are selling.
Or they could choose to sell less service. For example outside telecommunications, look at all the ice cream manufacturers that have cut the package size from 64 ounces to 48.
Morally, they shouldn't be advertising a service that they cannot provide
Which is why ISPs have pulled their "unlimited" ads in favor of "always on" ads.
With the BSA claiming half of PC users are pirates and the subscribers of the largest ISPs in the country getting (perhaps often unwarranted) strikes, so politicans realize what an enormous voting block this is?.
All that needs to happen is this becoming an issue on the political agenda. With tons of people getting these accusatory letters, that will undoubtedly come a step closer.
Pffft. the Marxist revolution is so-so passè. I want the Congress of Vienna back.
And then shortly thereafter you'd have lawmakers telling everyone with a public access point to log MAC addresses, which can easily be tied back to a specific device and thus a specific user much more precisely than you can with an IP address.
These kind of stories always draw half-cocked comments, spewed (along with flecks of Doritos) from the basements of parent-owned houses.
You can talk big, but you're not going to stick it to Comcast when you don't even pay the bill.
The rest of us just get on with our lives, using BitTorrent to grab an episode or two of a show the DVR missed. Occasionally we suck down entire seasons and don't worry too much about it. We leave a wireless "guest network" open and shut down torrents when we hit a 1.0 ratio. We have encryption and auto-updated blocklists.
We're smart geeks and we know the risks. We know it might piss someone off. Just like keeping up with highway traffic: technically we're speeding, but the chances of getting pulled over are slim to none. If we get caught and our ISP send us a nastygram, we knock it off for a while.
The following were found on this page and stated to be facts which simply are not true:
More than 373,000 Jobs
Lie #1 ... as people shift spending from media companies to other things, 373,000 jobs shift to other things. Follow the money!
Some $16 Billion in Lost Wages
Lie #2 (pretty much a rephrase of Lie #1) ... some $16 billion in gained wages in other job sectors where people are spending their money usually more effectively.
$2.6 Billion in Lost Taxes
Lie #3 (still much the same) ... the taxes will be paid through sales of other things.
I most certainly am NOT a supporter of copyright theft. However, lies used to promote programs to fight copyright theft are no better than these thefts themselves.
These are the same kinds of lies and fraud often perpetrated by big corporations and Republican presidential candidates to fool people into believing that they can pull free jobs out of their arses, if only you will just give them complete unlimited control of things.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
amost every pc and router i've seen in the last 8 years has the option to change the mac address.
From the Center For Copyright Information page, the News Feed link Center for Copyright Information Announces Three Major Steps Towards Implementation has this paragraph:
In addition to these appointments, CCI announced the retention of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), a global leader in conflict management. AAA will be the independent entity that manages the program’s independent review process, including the training of neutral reviewers for situations where a subscriber has received multiple alerts but believes a mitigation measure should not be imposed.
The usual procedure for this organization in other activities is to require substantial up front payment just to get things started. How this would play out in the case of this program is not specified. But it is likely to require the accused alleged infringer to initiate the process through AAA which could cost hundreds of dollars paid in advance, thus leaving a huge portion of the population out, assuming this process is fair (which in the financial services sector has been a dismal failure).
I'd be curious how they would try to force use of arbitration. Maybe as part of the contracts people sign with their internet providers? Better read your contracts. But if no such clause is present and stated to apply to outside parties, and anything is wrong in accusations made, I'd recommend taking the matter to court against the CFCI or whoever is providing the erroneous accusations.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
I was with Comcast and had a 15 mbps connection but typically 150-200 ms ping in our apartment building. They advertised the crap out of the download rate, but I felt like I was on a satellite sometimes with the ping.
We moved to a home in a new neighborhood that's only serviced by Qwest. I was initially disappointed by the drop to 7 mbps and really lousy upload speed, but I do take comfort in a very consistent = 60 ms ping.
For many practical purposes, cutting the ping from the really lousy 1/5th-1/7th of a second down to 1/15th made this an overall upgrade.
That judge was merely ruling on a legal matter; he wasn't ruling on business strategies. You (as well as ISPs) are still free to suspect anyone of anything, for any reason. Nobody can ever take that away from you. (We still even have racists, you know.)
The policy being discussed isn't a matter of legal punishment or liability; it's about previously-for-profit businesses opting to give inferior service to some customers, based on .. whatever .. so that those people will decide to stop being customers and stop paying the ISP every month.
Transitioning toward becoming non-profit is what happens to sectors that interact too much with Hollywood; talk with those people long enough and you too can start to think of the people who send you monthly payments, as the enemy. They will teach you how to say No whenever cash is waved in your face.
The next step for ISPs, one they get into a more regular habit of telling customers "no we don't want your money," should be to complain about falling revenues, and lobby government for more blatant subsidies. Perhaps there will be a "wire tax" where anyone who buys ethernet cables or wireless APs will pay a little extra, to fund their local cable TV franchise.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
amost every pc and router i've seen in the last 8 years has the option to change the mac address.
How does that work? I thought the point of MAC addresses was that they were unique? I suppose, or IP traffic they only need to be unique to their subnet, but still, that sounds like a potential problem for routing (though perhaps no more than assigned IP addresses).
Ceci n'est pas un sig.
Fuck you, nationalist pig.
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Burn a cd/dvd/br disk day. We can all gather in the city centre and march in a circle while we throw our disk into the fire. Free Red Bull for anyone who brings in a media exec for the throw a media exec into the fire toss event.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
I'm somewhat okay with his, just because... if you get caught six times... I mean... c'mon...
and average Joe will never implement that. Hell most don't even know the difference between the different keys let alone what a MAC address is or how to log it.
From PKI (Phil Zimmerman) to the present citizens, we lose to organized crime sustained by Congress, corporate-welfare laws, corporate-enforcers, Cleric-truths, and plutocrat courts.
This ain't the USA, of our founding parents, that I grew up in. Republicans, Libertarians, Religious Inquisition Party (RIP) and other non-thinking dogma-hogs have made it clear that "America belongs to them," not US.
Should corporations be provided with congressional laws that eliminates due process and/or require corporations enforce punitive measures on US Citizens. Get corporate-government/enforcers out of personal lives. Government/Congress should be prosecuting the organized crime, not the user, addict, consumer, private citizen for organized crime activities.
Corporate-government and plutocrat-welfare IMO supports the organized crime underground economy created by these laws that look important, but only force criminalizing and penalizing US Citizens. Easy image, no political cost BS-Laws and regulations.
Government and Industry need to turn their weapons of mass punitive and criminalizing effect away from US, and towards specific impact targets (organized crime).
Also, any organized crime underground economy can be disrupted (maybe destroyed) by Governments passing good targeted laws (i.e. repeal of prohibition ...).
Dogma-hog Republican, Libertarian, Religious Inquisition Party (RIP) ... logic will never consider justice and fairness as acceptable for US; Though, they will PAC expensively mass-market it as just and fair for US, not them.
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?
They use a portion of their market-abuse-derived profits to lobby for laws that protect their monopolies.
A small number of (poor) visionaries can do nothing against them. It is not until a huge percentage of the unwashed masses are pissed off enough to actually vote for someone on the platform of monopoly-busting that such a platform will become politically advantageous.
When that eventually happens, the executives will just bail on their golden parachutes and leave the shareholders holding the bag.
1) Get VPN. Choose one that does not keep logs. $40/year
2) Configure BitTorrent client so it won't upload or download unless the VPN is active.
3) There is no step 3.
Not with the entrenched Supremely Right-Wing Court. And with modern, top-flight medical care, these trolls will be overseeing the destruction of the Rule of Law for at least 30 more years.
mac addresses are only used to route packets at the most local level of the network, so as long as your forged mac address is still unique on your local switch, you won't have a problem.
This is probably why the implementation date is slipping. The ISPs might be waking up to the shitstorm that comes when they roll this out.
I wonder how much government bailout money we will need to pay in extra taxes once the ISPs lose the large majority of their customers and income...
If supposedly 50% of people pirate just software, that alone will result in the ISPs only having 50% of their current income.
Throw music and movies into the mix, and it would not surprise me if that number was over 75%.
That's a hell of a lot of income to willingly refuse to take...
Free up bandwidth in your neighborhood:
1) P0wn the neighbors' wi-fi access points*
2) Install script that causes access point to act as a proxy for your own downloading
3) Download six or more copyrighted works via each neighbor's IP address
Within a few days, you could be the only one left in your hood with an unthrottled internet connection. Woo-hoo, no more choppy Netflix streaming during prime time! And you get a bunch of free IP to boot.
*Not illegal if they ask you, as a computer whiz, to "optimize" them.
If you accuse someone of wrongdoing and then take action against them you can and will be sued.
There is a lot of music on YouTube. Some of it is uploaded by the record companies and is legit for downloading. Some of it is probably not. In the general case though, how are you supposed to know. I found a site the other day with free books. I wasn't sure if the site had the rights to distribute all the books or not. Also, in the case of YouTube, is there a distinction between watching a video, and saving it to your hard drive.
I have been thinking off a "sneaker-net-day". One day per year, people copy all your music/movies (or as much as you can) on an external drive, go to their buddy's place and they exchange all their music/movies/etc.. If enough people do this and with different buddies, it would make a big impact.
...a monthly fee added to your internet bill, say an extra $10-$20/month, sent straight to them.
To cover unlimited downloading of movies and music, no matter where you get them from on the net.
Some countries do that model already, the effect being their 'net users don't have to worry about what they're downloading or uploading
Why is that so hard?
If supposedly 50% of people pirate just software [slashdot.org], that alone will result in the ISPs only having 50% of their current income.
Throw music and movies into the mix, and it would not surprise me if that number was over 75%.
It's even worse than that. If there are an average of 4 regular users on a given home internet connection (which doesn't seem unreasonable), there's only a 1/16 chance that none of them are pirating something if you go by raw averages. What do you think they'll say when they realize they've sent out 3rd, 4th, and 5th warnings to 90% of their customers?
No article ever names who these "other ISPs" are!
They want a constant revenue stream that grows larger and larger and larger that they can control. For that monthly fee to really work in the United States, all files available would have to have no DRM on them and we, the People, would want to be able to time-shift, format-shift, stream, media-shift, device shift, and in all other ways manipulate the file that we BOUGHT. Not rented, not have a license for, not paid for by us and controlled by them - BOUGHT. Period. We, the people who paid our hard-earned money for it, owns it.
The MAFIAA doesn't want that. Ever. It removes their ability to "monetize their products" and gives the People too much power.
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Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
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Yup. Idealist leaders are usually easy to manipulate (either directly or indirectly, depending on their particular brand) so they can't keep a consolidated power base for long. It's so much easier to gain power if you're willing and able to break legs and crack skulls. That's why real communism will never, ever work on a large scale.
I hope no one is using my mac ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
In Linux at least, changing your mac address is trivial (ifconfig "device name" hw ether "new mac address"). The problem with that, and everything else they are doing, is that the real criminals will still be two steps ahead of the law, but the common people (their best customers) will pay. Crazy long-term business plan.
you can get more creative than that. How about ca.5a.b1.66.b0.0b or fe.ce.5b.a5.eb.al
(1 = i or l, 5 = s, 6 = g)
Haven't you realized that's what they want? To shut down the Internet?
The ISPs don't want client and host money?
Heh, the "Fourth International" never led any revolutions. Bunch of armchair do-nothing wankers.
The other person who responded to you is absolutely correct. And due to that, even the mac addresses that ship on hardware aren't 100% unique. They've had to start reusing them already.
There is no -1 Disagree mod. Slashdot.org/faq defines mod options. USE IT.
Do you have any more information or links regarding this backdoor?
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the Internet. Blog
They could, but if you have any sense, you encrypt your data streams.
The ISPs don't know anything except you're transferring a lot of data.
You actually think any of that hardware from the 90s is still in operation, or hasn't been rebuilt / replaced / upgraded?
(semi-trolling)
I'm not sure why you don't include Democrats in your rant, since this was the "compromise" that was quietly worked on by Obama even before SOPA.
i've got an idea, allow users to download for free all the legally free-to-download movies/music/software/games/apps. I mean...you don't charge those "free" downloads to their bandwidth. Anything else apart from this list of (ummm let's say 1 million files) will be charged to your bandwidth usage meter. No more unlimited speeds.
This will make people download more legal stuff, coz not only is the item free but the transport of that item is also free. Free product. Free shipping. Why would i want to steal after that?
Anonymous Coward's never have anything interesting to think, feel, or say.
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?