this from a Reuter new clipping(as applicable perhaps only in USA so far,but perhaps already introduced in INDIA,unofficially of course...)
Internet providers to act against online pirates
By Lisa Richwine
LOS ANGELES | Thu Jul 7, 2011 6:07pm EDT
Internet providers to act against online pirates | Reuters
(Reuters) - Consumers who illegally download copyrighted films, music or television shows might see their Internet speed slowed or access restricted under an industry anti-piracy effort announced on Thursday.
U.S. Internet service providers, including Verizon Communications Inc, Comcast Corp, Time Warner Cable Inc, Cablevision Systems Corp and AT&T Inc agreed to alert customers, up to six times, when it appears their account is used for illegal downloading. Warnings will come as e-mails or pop-up messages.
If suspected illegal activity persists, the provider might temporarily slow Internet speed or redirect the browser to a specific Web page until the customer contacts the company. The user can seek an independent review of whether they acted legally.
Internet access will not be terminated, according to a statement from the industry partners behind the effort. The coalition includes groups representing movie studios, independent film makers and record labels.
The group argues that content piracy costs the U.S. economy more than 373,000 jobs, $16 billion in lost earnings and $3 billion in tax revenue each year.
Industry officials said they thought most people would stop copyright violations once they were warned about illegal activity. The warnings also might alert parents unaware of their children's activity.
"We are confident that, once informed that content theft is taking place on their accounts, the great majority of broadband subscribers will take steps to stop it," James Assey, executive vice president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, said in a statement.
Two consumer groups said the effort had the "potential to be an important educational vehicle" to help reduce online copyright infringement, but voiced concern about the sanctions.
"We are particularly disappointed that the agreement lists Internet account suspension among the possible remedies," the Center for Democracy & Technology and Public Knowledge said in a statement.
The groups said it would be "wrong for any (Internet service provider) to cut off subscribers, even temporarily, based on allegations that have not been tested in court."
The Obama administration welcomed the industry effort.
"We believe it will have a significant impact on reducing online piracy," Victoria Espinel, the U.S. intellectual property enforcement coordinator, wrote on the White House blog.
The administration expects the organization that implements the program to consult with advocacy groups "to assure that its practices are fully consistent with the democratic values that have helped the Internet to flourish," she added.
This from a blog I follow for good torrent leads(mostly PODCASTS,DOCUMENTARIES,INFO ARTICLES-all in public domain for free download,only consolidated as torrent for convenience-but FARTTEL>>sorry looks like its original name is supposed to be AIRTEL- sadly
behaves more like a smelly disgusting FARTTEL-perhaps doesn't want to be bothered with details-so the easy way out for morons-START THROTTLING-They perhaps don't know yet the power of ORGANIZED AND INFORMED CONSUMER-There Needs to just ONE GOOD ISP ALTERNATIVE AVAILABLE-and mass dumping can teach any TELE_BEHEMOTH a good lesson-how better to start treating customers
nicely......but for that to occur,perhaps we need another ANNA HAZARE.....
information wants to be free: Your ISP Has Volunteered to Start Watching YOU
This announcement as reported contains suspiciously few details. How, for example, will these mighty ISPs identify illegal downloads? Will they be checking the content of torrents for copyrighted music or video? If so, will they let audiobooks or ebooks slide? Probably not.
I suspect that it's going to be easier for them to do this nefarious job by compiling a list of sites they'll declare to be probable sources of illegal downloads. If I'm on the right track, whatever torrent you get from The Pirate Bay, link-removed, et al will likely be assumed to be an illegal download for the purposes of this program.
And there's a very good chance they will tag well known file hosts such as link-removed and perhaps MediaFire and others similarly as probable sources of forbidden material.
This has the potential to be a bad thing, and to serve as paving the way to even worse things. I would really appreciate hearing from users here as to possible work-arounds, etc. Using torrage and magnet links mean you don't have to visit link-removed.org to download, but do torrents still need to be initially uploaded to indexers like TPB in order to be propagated through the bit torrent system so that magnet and torrage links will work? I'm sorry to admit it, but I don't possess the knowledge to answer those kinds of questions. Hopefully some of you do.
Between the burden of Comcast's bandwidth cap [that I must begin coping with as of tomorrow] and this news, the outlook is seeming more than a little bleak to me at the moment. This could, conceivably put me out of business here, or at the very least require a major rethinking of how this blog works. Please let me hear from you.
Have You been experiencing Extreme Throttling incidents(Especially for TORRENTS),Download Terminating Abruptly,Speed just Crawling while downloading(while surfing it seems to just fine) Intermittent Disconnections......OR IS IT JUST ME HALLUCINATING......
WISH THERE WERE SOME ALTERNATIVES AVAILABLE FOR AIRTEL (MORE OF FARTTEL) TO BE DUMPED FOR......
Qrius
Internet providers to act against online pirates
By Lisa Richwine
LOS ANGELES | Thu Jul 7, 2011 6:07pm EDT
Internet providers to act against online pirates | Reuters
(Reuters) - Consumers who illegally download copyrighted films, music or television shows might see their Internet speed slowed or access restricted under an industry anti-piracy effort announced on Thursday.
U.S. Internet service providers, including Verizon Communications Inc, Comcast Corp, Time Warner Cable Inc, Cablevision Systems Corp and AT&T Inc agreed to alert customers, up to six times, when it appears their account is used for illegal downloading. Warnings will come as e-mails or pop-up messages.
If suspected illegal activity persists, the provider might temporarily slow Internet speed or redirect the browser to a specific Web page until the customer contacts the company. The user can seek an independent review of whether they acted legally.
Internet access will not be terminated, according to a statement from the industry partners behind the effort. The coalition includes groups representing movie studios, independent film makers and record labels.
The group argues that content piracy costs the U.S. economy more than 373,000 jobs, $16 billion in lost earnings and $3 billion in tax revenue each year.
Industry officials said they thought most people would stop copyright violations once they were warned about illegal activity. The warnings also might alert parents unaware of their children's activity.
"We are confident that, once informed that content theft is taking place on their accounts, the great majority of broadband subscribers will take steps to stop it," James Assey, executive vice president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, said in a statement.
Two consumer groups said the effort had the "potential to be an important educational vehicle" to help reduce online copyright infringement, but voiced concern about the sanctions.
"We are particularly disappointed that the agreement lists Internet account suspension among the possible remedies," the Center for Democracy & Technology and Public Knowledge said in a statement.
The groups said it would be "wrong for any (Internet service provider) to cut off subscribers, even temporarily, based on allegations that have not been tested in court."
The Obama administration welcomed the industry effort.
"We believe it will have a significant impact on reducing online piracy," Victoria Espinel, the U.S. intellectual property enforcement coordinator, wrote on the White House blog.
The administration expects the organization that implements the program to consult with advocacy groups "to assure that its practices are fully consistent with the democratic values that have helped the Internet to flourish," she added.
This from a blog I follow for good torrent leads(mostly PODCASTS,DOCUMENTARIES,INFO ARTICLES-all in public domain for free download,only consolidated as torrent for convenience-but FARTTEL>>sorry looks like its original name is supposed to be AIRTEL- sadly
behaves more like a smelly disgusting FARTTEL-perhaps doesn't want to be bothered with details-so the easy way out for morons-START THROTTLING-They perhaps don't know yet the power of ORGANIZED AND INFORMED CONSUMER-There Needs to just ONE GOOD ISP ALTERNATIVE AVAILABLE-and mass dumping can teach any TELE_BEHEMOTH a good lesson-how better to start treating customers
nicely......but for that to occur,perhaps we need another ANNA HAZARE.....
information wants to be free: Your ISP Has Volunteered to Start Watching YOU
This announcement as reported contains suspiciously few details. How, for example, will these mighty ISPs identify illegal downloads? Will they be checking the content of torrents for copyrighted music or video? If so, will they let audiobooks or ebooks slide? Probably not.
I suspect that it's going to be easier for them to do this nefarious job by compiling a list of sites they'll declare to be probable sources of illegal downloads. If I'm on the right track, whatever torrent you get from The Pirate Bay, link-removed, et al will likely be assumed to be an illegal download for the purposes of this program.
And there's a very good chance they will tag well known file hosts such as link-removed and perhaps MediaFire and others similarly as probable sources of forbidden material.
This has the potential to be a bad thing, and to serve as paving the way to even worse things. I would really appreciate hearing from users here as to possible work-arounds, etc. Using torrage and magnet links mean you don't have to visit link-removed.org to download, but do torrents still need to be initially uploaded to indexers like TPB in order to be propagated through the bit torrent system so that magnet and torrage links will work? I'm sorry to admit it, but I don't possess the knowledge to answer those kinds of questions. Hopefully some of you do.
Between the burden of Comcast's bandwidth cap [that I must begin coping with as of tomorrow] and this news, the outlook is seeming more than a little bleak to me at the moment. This could, conceivably put me out of business here, or at the very least require a major rethinking of how this blog works. Please let me hear from you.
Have You been experiencing Extreme Throttling incidents(Especially for TORRENTS),Download Terminating Abruptly,Speed just Crawling while downloading(while surfing it seems to just fine) Intermittent Disconnections......OR IS IT JUST ME HALLUCINATING......
WISH THERE WERE SOME ALTERNATIVES AVAILABLE FOR AIRTEL (MORE OF FARTTEL) TO BE DUMPED FOR......
Qrius