Re: Six Strike Rule (Was: William was raided...)

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

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 () 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 () 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 () 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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