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The Copyright Alert System Is Here; Aims To Educate & Slow Down Illegal Downloaders' Internet Speeds

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Oh hey, remember when we told you about the Copyright Alert System a few months ago and that it's coming. Yea, well..it's here!

A quick recap: the Copyright Alert System is a new measure by the recording and movie industries to try to stop illegal downloading. The way it works is content providers (eg. the record labels or movie studios) will be lurking on torrenting sites and tracking IPs of people who download files illegally. They will track down the internet service provider of the offender and have the ISP send their customer a notice explaining what they are doing is wrong. After three such notices, internet speeds for the user will be decreased, or all internet activity will be redirected to a prompt forcing them to acknowledge that they are not doing something right. It's all explained in this very calm and peaceful video:

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After six alerts, your internet service will be disrupted or slowed down to prevent downloading.

The program is stressing that this is just an educational system and there will be no lawsuits coming out of this. Ultimately, the only sites affected by this are public trackers. Private tracks, file-sharing sites and the like will not be tracked.

Basically, this is a great way for record labels to blow a lot of money on a system that will be voided in a few years.

[via Metal Insider]

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  • http://www.facebook.com/Anonymous.Hipster Mitchell Miller

    If we torrent music, movies and games, we know what we're doing is wrong. Education isn't the problem!
    Also, surveys have shown that people who torrent these things often buy more of these things as well!

  • http://www.facebook.com/frederick.siris Frederick Siris

    This is great because now if I want a cd and the store doesn't have it (which they never do) I can just order it offline and wait 349 days to finally get here

  • Jason Parrish

    Whenever copyright owners crack down on file sharing avenues it just makes people find other ways to download stuff.

    Like when they cracked down on rapidfire, mediafire, megaupload etc a lot of people moved onto using torrents. So with this everyone will figure out another way.

    It just makes folks more tech savvy ha.

  • livinlikeacorpse

    Just try and take my youtube downloader motherfuckers. There is always a way around.

  • Kochiha

    No reason to panic. What'll eventually happen is MPAA and RIAA will try to push the matter further, which will lead to the ISPs taking them to court where they'll reveal gruesome details about the two 'AAs mob-like inner workings. If all goes well, the two big advocates for internet restriction will be ripped apart in a matter of months.

  • http://twitter.com/A_Diff_Attitude A Different Attitude

    Only limits torrenting. Kay.

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