Don't Forget: "Six Strikes" Starts This Weekend

Dr. Eggman writes "If you don't recall, then Broadband/DSL Reports is here to remind us that ISPs around the U.S. will begin adhering to the RIAA/MPAA-fueled 'Six Strikes' agreement on July 1st. Or is it July 12th? Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and Cablevision are all counted among the participants. They will each introduce 'mitigation measures' against suspected pirates, including: throttling down connection speeds and suspending Web access."

Comments

Hacktivism at its finest

[Anonymous Coward]

So this is the time we should go break into powerful people's wifi and download high profile torrents and get their connections shut down. It would be funny if every high powered person in good ol' United Socialists of America was without internet because they were cutoff.

Re:Hacktivism at its finest

[History's Coming To]

Yeah, because they'll fall for that six times in a row...

(I know, I know, and I'll even cite the number of UK politicians who's phones containing state secrets were hacked because they left the voicemail password set as 0000.)

And yes, I agree with the above poster who believes that eventually stopping people pirating stuff will kill the internet, oh yes indeed, none of it will be any use if you can't download Buffy for free. If the ISPs start hammering people simply because of a Gb torrent which turns out to be a linux ISO then there's a problem, but if they can legitimately show piracy was going on then fair enough. Six strikes is easily enough to give people the hint. If they don't like it they're free to rent their own backbone connection.

Re:Only other places need freedom

[longk]

Freedom of speech allows you to say whatever you want about the government. It does not allow you to say whatever you want about others and certainly does not in any way apply to piracy.