Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Six Strikes Your Off

AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon have announced their participation in a program created by the Center For Copyright Information.

Under the program anyone who is caught infringing on copy right will be sent a warning.

If someone receives six warnings, they will immediately find themselves with either severly limited or no internet access.

The companies involved believe that if someone refuses to change their ways after all of the warnings, then clearly they're not going to.

Opponents of the program worry that it will hurt the ability of businesses to offer wifi.

A similar program is set to begin March 2014, in the UK, but with only three strikes.

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