How Verizon's 'Six Strikes' Plan Works

An anonymous reader writes "With the 'six-strikes' anti-piracy plan set to begin in the U.S. soon, TorrentFreak has gotten its hands on a document showing how Verizon in particular will be dealing with copyright-infringing users. For your first and second strike, Verizon will email you and leave you a voicemail informing you that your account is involved in copyright infringement. For your third and fourth strikes, the ISP will automatically redirect your browser to a page that requires you to acknowledge receiving the alerts. They'll also play a video about the dangers of infringement. For your fifth and sixth strikes, they give you three options: massively throttle your connection for a few days, wait two weeks and then throttle your connection, or file an appeal with an arbitration service for $35. TorrentFreak points out that the MPAA and RIAA can obtain the connection information of repeat infringers, with which they can then take legal action."

Comments

Getting off easy

[Anonymous Coward]

They should be reporting you to the police at the first notice of copyright infringement.

Or stop being being a F-ing thief

[raymorris]

Another way to solve the problem - stop being a scum sucking thief.

I worked 60 hours a week to make cool stuff for you, then a bunch of assholes, being complete scumballs, stole it rather than paying the damn $3. So I went out of business and had to go do work for Homeland Security. They're a pitiful excuse for human beings and THAT is why we can't have nice things. Their delusional excuses make about as much sense as NAMBLA's and deep down they know that. They just don't want to admit to themselves what a steaming pile of dogshit they are, thieves.

Re:Or stop being being a F-ing thief

[davydagger]

"Another way to solve the problem - stop being a scum sucking thief."
since when is sharing stealing. you need to be one helluva PR department psychopath to make that connection.

"I worked 60 hours a week to make cool stuff for you,"
cool stuff? Before filesharing, hollywood was OK with really crap movies, the music industry, the same repetative shitty music, with these artists with outsized egos.

Then comes down to $10 to see a movie, after being gouged with ridicolous snack prices, and yet somehow the rest of us who do real productive work are the problem, and not some asshole celebrities who make an easy 1/3-1/2 of the movie's production cost of over $100 million.

Your on slashdot with a bunch of nerds. We made the technology that makes the internet go. You couldn't go five seconds without shit we made, I could go forever without seeing another MPAA movie, or listening to another shitty RIAA artist. Go a week without using Free software.

Here is a hint, get the fuck off the internet, because not only do most webservers run linux, Windows uses the IP stack from BSD, and OSX uses the same stack, and goes further, using the same "networkmanager" program to manage internet, originally part of the gnome project written by Red Hat, licensed under the GPL.

I could easily go without hearing britney spears or justin beaver.

"Their delusional excuses make about as much sense as NAMBLA's and deep down they know that."
you don't like someone they are both mentally ill and a pedophile? makes perfect sense.

Take a fucking hint and no one likes you, and we'd all be much happier if you were pennieless and broke living under a bridge somewhere.