US ISPs become 'copyright cops' starting July 12

[Juan_Ambriz]

If this has been posted just Bin it..
but...

This sucks:

Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and other Internet service providers in the United States will soon launch new programs to police their networks in an effort to catch digital pirates and stop illegal file-sharing. Major ISPs announced last summer that they had agreed to take new measures in an effort to prevent subscribers from illegally downloading copyrighted material, but the specifics surrounding the imminent antipiracy measures were not made available. Now, RIAA chief executive Cary Sherman has said that ISPs are ready to begin their efforts to curtail illegal movie, music and software downloads on July 12th. Read on for more.
“Each ISP has to develop their infrastructure for automating the system,” Sherman said during a talk at the annual Association of American Publishers meeting, according to CNET. Measures will also be taken to establish databases “so they can keep track of repeat infringers, so they know that this is the first notice or the third notice. Every ISP has to do it differently depending on the architecture of its particular network. Some are nearing completion and others are a little further from completion.”
Customers found to be illegally downloading copyrighted material will first receive one or two notifications from their ISPs, essentially stating that they have been caught. If the illegal downloads continue, subscribers will receive a new notice requesting acknowledgement that the notice has been received. Subsequent offenses can then result in bandwidth throttling and even service suspension.
The news comes shortly after the closure of file-sharing giant Megaupload and increased pressure on other networks thought to be major hubs for the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials. Some studies show that these measures have had no impact on piracy, however, so organizations like the RIAA have been lobbying for ISPs to intervene and develop systems that will allow them to police their networks and directly address subscribers who illegally download copyrighted content.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/17/us-isps-become-copyright-cops-starting-july-12/?test=latestnews#ixzz1pRErxs7y

[Tezuni]

fox news

[Astropilot]

Better start downloading everything on the internet.

[Frank]

Suddenly, Tor might not be so bad.

[Deathie]

A lot of ISPs in Australia do this.

Actually, almost all of them.

They basically wait to see a large spike in bandwidth usage and monitor your network to view unusual traffic, like the hundreds of packets being transferred when you're on a peer-to-peer network.

I haven't researched the topic at all, but I'd think there'd be a way to hide it in the form of a standard web download if you somehow hide the outbound traffic to look like it's coming from one source, and not like a thousand.

But yeah. If this is real, it sucks.

[Supertoaster]

oh well

no more piracy for me

[semy32]

You are hardly backtrackable if you pirate things.

[Frank]

You are hardly backtrackable if you pirate things.

Uuuuuuuuuh, not if your ISP monitors your bandwith ._.

[semy32]

Uuuuuuuuuh, not if your ISP monitors your bandwith ._.

Do you thing that they will monitor every clients bandwith?

[Dale Feles]

Do you thing that they will monitor every clients bandwith?

They'll check for people with high bandwith I think...

So unless you pirate a shitload of stuff, you should be safe... I think...

[Tezuni]

Typical fox news fear mongering, people already get letters from their ISP about copyright infringement, but the ISPs get punished, not you.
In extreme cases they may drop you as a customer.

[Deathie]

They'll check for people with high bandwith I think...

So unless you pirate a shitload of stuff, you should be safe... I think...

When you connect to a peer-to-peer network (torrents), your information is being sent to about a hundred different users.

That rarely happens outside of torrents. When you're loading a webpage, the information is coming from maybe, three connections at once for a couple of seconds. When you're downloading one, maybe even two torrents, you have about 200 connections or more flooding in for an extended period of time.

It'd be really easy to detect this sort of thing on their end.

[Supertoaster]

My friend was caught once. They actually came to her house and gave her a warning.

[Cake Faice]

Suddenly, Tor might not be so bad.

Yeah...better start getting used to Tor.

[Seb]

Yeah...better start getting used to Tor.

I lost my .txt filled with .onion sites, anybody think they can send me some in a PM?