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Six Strike Rule (Was: William was raided...)
- Subject: Six Strike Rule (Was: William was raided...)
- From: owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 12:22:57 -0800
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Marketing... They don't want to risk it getting caught in the current backlash
against 3-strikes laws.
Owen
On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:13 , Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
> ISOC-NY ran a half day conflab on 6 strikes (which incidentally - and for
> reasons that escape me - is a name the Copyright Alert System perpetrators
> wish would not be used) last November 15.
>
> A full archive is available at http://isoc-ny.org/p2/4527
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jason Baugher <jason at thebaughers.com>wrote:
>
>> We don't do content inspection. We don't really want to know what our
>> customers are doing, and even if we did, there's not enough time in the day
>> to spend paying attention. When we get complaints from the various
>> copyright agencies, we warn the customer to stop. When we hit a certain
>> number of complaints, its bye-bye customer.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012-12-04 11:51, Nick B wrote:
>>>> In a related note, I wonder if the six-strike rule would violate the
>>> ISP's
>>>> safe harbor, as it's clearly content inspection.
>>>
>>> As performed in France, what happens is that some copyright owner
>>> contacts the ISP that IP address a.b.c.d had accessed/served copyright
>>> infringing data at date/time dd-mm-yyyy HH:mm providing some kind of
>>> detail on how they figured that out.
>>>
>>> That report is a 'strike' and gets forwarded to the user.
>>>
>>> If that then happens 6 times they are blocked.
>>>
>>> The ISP as such does not do any content inspection.
>>>
>>> It is though assumed that some ISPs simply count bytes and that they do
>>> some investigation themselves when you reach a certain bandwidth
>>> threshold (it seems to correlate that copyright infringers are
>>> downloading a lot more than normal webbrowsing users...)
>>>
>>> Greets,
>>> Jeroen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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