[mdlug] [Fwd: [opensuse-offtopic] Why Your Business Should Worry About the ISP Copyright Fight]

[Aaron Kulkis]

Great.. so get ACCUSED six times, and lose your internet service....

No doubt this will be braindead -- oh, you're using a bittorrent client,
you must be filesharing something illegally!

so, if I'm downloading *LEGALLY* a Linux DVD .iso image, that might
turn into a "strike".... or some band's "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE COPY
THESE .mp3s of our music that we put on our site for you to listen
to"...  this could turn into a strike against me...

great... just freakin' great.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [opensuse-offtopic] Why Your Business Should Worry About the 
ISP Copyright Fight
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:10:18 +1000
From: Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>
To: opensuse-offtopic at opensuse.org

Millions of small business owners may soon realize that their Internet
service could be disrupted if they're wrongly accused of illegal file
sharing or downloading under the "six strikes" plan
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/235261/isps_fight_piracy_meet_the_six_strikes.html> 

entertainment media groups announced this week.

Initiated by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and other media groups,
participating ISPs will shortly begin sending warning letters to users
or companies whose accounts are allegedly used to illegally share files.
ISPs will send a series of up to six notices to account holders whose IP
addresses are allegedly used for the "online content theft of film, TV
shows, or music" as part of the Center for Copyright Information
<http://www.copyrightinformation.org/> initiative. After six notices,
the ISP could begin a series of "mitigation measures"--which for all
intents and purposes would likely lead to the disruption of Internet
services on which most small businesses depend.

The announcement is the most important of its kind since the RIAA
announced it was ending its litigation campaign
<http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2008/12/23/riaa-to-scale-down-us-copyright-litigation-details-of-new-plan-unclear/> 

in 2008 to thwart illegal file sharing. So now, instead of suing alleged
digital copyright infringers, participating ISPs including AT&T,
Cablevision Systems, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon will carry
the stick intended to curb illegal file sharing on behalf of the media
companies.

Here are four things that small businesses should be concerned about.

[More]

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