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Software That Flagged HBO.com For Piracy Will Power U.S. 'Six Strikes' System

Posted by Soulskill on from the raise-your-hand-if-you're-at-all-surprised dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A copyright monitoring program called MarkMonitor mistakenly flagged HBO.com for pirating its own shows, and sent automatic DMCA takedown notices to the network. It's a funny story, until you realize that MarkMonitor is the same software that will power the U.S. Copyright Alerts System (a.k.a. "Six Strikes"), due to be rolled out by the five largest U.S. ISPs sometime in the next month."

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  1. Who cares by schneidafunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least our e-voting software is safe.

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  2. Re:So, do something by drakaan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait...does this mean that if HBO gets flagged 5 more times they go to jail? Sweet! Self-correcting legislation is awesome!

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  3. Nope. Still funny. by Jmc23 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure even the USians will enjoy more and more copyright owners getting sued by themselves.

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  4. Re:So, do something by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    the people that actually do something are over at reddit. even fucking 4chan beats you whiners.

  5. Re:Which ISPs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, that one ISP: AT&VeriCastVisionCable