Internet Monitoring to Happen July 1st

[rembrandtqeinstein]

VPN to Sweden is still cheaper than a netflix subscription:

https://www.relakks.com/?cid=gb

Maybe the movie and music industry should look at steam as an example of how to motivate people to buy stuff even though it is easily obtainable by other means.

 

[viranimus]

I sort of dont even think this is factual.

http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-wins-protest-against-shake-down-of-alleged-bittorrent-pirates-120622/

Why would Comcast burn money to tell the copywrite holders spamming their physical inbox with trash mail about their subscribers to stop it, just to turn around and begin monitoring for those same copywrite trolls not even a full month later?

Really does not make a lot of sense.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Sounds like tin foil hat conspiracy nonsense. ISPs are the last ones who want to do this because it requires obscene amounts of resources on their end, and even then the legality is shaky at best. Seriously, can you fathom the amount of work, time, and money it would take to go through the data of several hundred million people?

Exactly. No ISP would agree to this because doing so would could potentially compromise their ability to make a profit.

However, as I've stated in another thread, this whole copyright/piracy thing is beginning to feel like a witch hunt.

 

[HardkorSB]

Assuming that this is true:
Wouldn't it be funny if one could somehow convince millions of people to not only torrent the hell out of everything, but also to start sending each other messages, posting articles, videos etc. about how they're going to overthrow the government at the same time?

Let's do it!
Who's with me? Anyone... no...?

 

[DoPo]

Assuming that this is true:
Wouldn't it be funny if one could somehow convince millions of people to start sending each other messages, posting articles, videos etc. about how they're going to overthrow the government at the same time?

Let's do it!
Who's with me? Anyone... no...?

Nope, that's still not copyright infringement. You'll be safe. Unless you use copyrighted movie or song.

 

[HardkorSB]

Assuming that this is true:
Wouldn't it be funny if one could somehow convince millions of people to start sending each other messages, posting articles, videos etc. about how they're going to overthrow the government at the same time?

Let's do it!
Who's with me? Anyone... no...?

Nope, that's still not copyright infringement. You'll be safe. Unless you use copyrighted movie or song.

Well, they would be looking for copyright infringement but I think the alarm would go off after they would go through a few thousand "evil plans" to assassinate the president.

 

[EHKOS]

TO THE HINDENPETER!

QUICK LOAD AS MUCH LOOT AS YOU CAN! THEY CAN'T TAKE THE SKY FROM US!

(wow two references in one post)

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Ah, if only it had been set for three days later for added amusement value.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Sounds like tin foil hat conspiracy nonsense. ISPs are the last ones who want to do this because it requires obscene amounts of resources on their end, and even then the legality is shaky at best. Seriously, can you fathom the amount of work, time, and money it would take to go through the data of several hundred million people?

Exactly. No ISP would agree to this because doing so would could potentially compromise their ability to make a profit.

However, as I've stated in another thread, this whole copyright/piracy thing is beginning to feel like a witch hunt.

Beginning to? Man, that's all it's ever been. Piracy has never been anything but a boogeyman for CEOs to tell their shareholders about at night, so that they didn't discover the real monster of "we're already making all the money we can reasonably expect to make, and if our profits are dropping it has something to do with either the quality of our work or failures on our part to get our product out in the formats and at the prices it needs to be out in and at."

 

[Random Argument Man]

On July 1st? Canada day has become Cyberpolice day! YAY! I can skip youtube for a day.

Captcha: politically correct

There's a joke somewhere.

 

[DoPo]

THEY CAN'T TAKE THE SKY FROM US!

Do not tempt them. There is no escape.

 

[zidine100]

... so, im assuimg if this does come in to play over there they wont be using real people, as well it would be virtually impossible to do. Probably a variation on those copyright spiders used to scan live streams witch might i add are *so* accurate...

 

[Duffy13]

Relevant article explaining how this is not really a big deal:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/128258/us-isps-big-content-reaching-antipiracy-agreement

Note this this is a month old.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Sounds like tin foil hat conspiracy nonsense. ISPs are the last ones who want to do this because it requires obscene amounts of resources on their end, and even then the legality is shaky at best. Seriously, can you fathom the amount of work, time, and money it would take to go through the data of several hundred million people?

Exactly. No ISP would agree to this because doing so would could potentially compromise their ability to make a profit.

However, as I've stated in another thread, this whole copyright/piracy thing is beginning to feel like a witch hunt.

Beginning to? Man, that's all it's ever been. Piracy has never been anything but a boogeyman for CEOs to tell their shareholders about at night, so that they didn't discover the real monster of "we're already making all the money we can reasonably expect to make, and if our profits are dropping it has something to do with either the quality of our work or failures on our part to get our product out in the formats and at the prices it needs to be out in and at."

Ok let me rephrase that, it has become a witch hunt. It's gotten even crazier than the Salem Witch Tials or the McCarthy Trials.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Ok let me rephrase that, it has become a witch hunt. It's gotten even crazier than the Salem Witch Tials or the McCarthy Trials.

All in the name of Copyright...
There's protecting ones livelihood/career and then there's fear-mongering.
We have now found the point where they collide: and it's just one of those things that you step back and see just how fucking absurd things have become in the modern world.

 

[PoloniumFist]

This has been going on for at least a year already; I was given a warning by Comcast for torrenting a single song that I heard in a Crysis 2 trailer. They threatened to cut off our internet service if they caught us doing things like this again.

 

[lacktheknack]

OK, so what about countries where it totally is legal? Are the FBI going to track them down as well because "America is the world"?

 

[Iron Lightning]

Sounds like tin foil hat conspiracy nonsense. ISPs are the last ones who want to do this because it requires obscene amounts of resources on their end, and even then the legality is shaky at best. Seriously, can you fathom the amount of work, time, and money it would take to go through the data of several hundred million people?

Nope, it's true. Here's the Cnet article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-1/?tag=mncol;topStories .

You're right in that it would require a lot of work and time (they've been preparing for this for at least a year) as well as money (which is not a huge problem when you're backed by the RIAA and MPAA.) You can argue as much as you want about the effectiveness and sense of this system but it's nevertheless going to happen.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Woo, technology straight from 1984! We are in the future!

 

[BytByte]

I was a bit worried when I clicked to read the article, but then I saw
"Former pregnant inmate sues after being forced to wear shackles during labor" above it and know that everything will be okay.