Film Consortium Urges ISPs To Dump Ineffective "Six Strikes" Policy For Pirates

An anonymous reader writes: The Internet Security Task Force, a group of businesses working to protect content creators and consumers from the negative effects of piracy, has called for an end to the Copyright Alert System, saying the anti-piracy initiative is not only ineffective but actually makes things worse. The group suggest that it be replaced with a new system based on Canada's Copyright Modernization Act. Mark Gill, ISTF chairman and President of member company Millennium films, says "We've always known the Copyright Alert System was ineffective, as it allows people to steal six movies from us before they get an educational leaflet. But now we have the data to prove that it's a sham." The Copyright Alert System (CAS) is set to expire early July.

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Re:Sounds like 6 strikes is terrible

[mark-t]

Steal is still the right word... it just so happens that what is being stolen when someone infringes on copyright is of little to no value to the thief, and so they do not even necessarily realize that it has been taken... In my experience, once a pirate has been informed on the matter and *do* realize what they are taking, they will typically make a moral judgement on the matter that goes something to the effect of "oh, well that isn't tangible, so it doesn't count", or else advocate copyright abolition by saying "copyright holders shouldn't be allowed such control", or something still suggest something vague like "well that shouldn't matter". None of this considers the fact that what was stolen was (typically, or else they would not utilize copyright in the first place and would put their work in the public domain) genuinely valued by the copyright holder and was still being taken without permission. The last 3 words in the previous sentence define theft.