American ISPs start to actively monitor piracy on July 1st

[Demian]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-1/

Can someone explain to me how this is different from their earlier policies?

[Ad Bot]

[Messes]

aka 100 warnings and then they do something, but if you agree to stop on the 101st infraction, its all okay

[otto-san]

aka 100 warnings and then they do something, but if you agree to stop on the 101st infraction, its all okay

sounds effective

[Count]

No matter what people say or do, they are going to do stuff like this.

[Alyx Vance]

Inb4anotherprotest.

I'll lmfao if there is one.

[Bisjac]

it sounds like bad news but its really GOOD news.

now instead of some ass like sony suing an internet user for $20,000 for downloading some movie, they can only complain to the ISP, who by law, quickly has to contact you with weak threats.

ISPs will began to watch for torrenting now. prob forget your speeds down when they know you are using them, regardless if its piracy or not that you are taking part in.

[TheChaosCarrier]

PeerBlocker.

Cox will never know. B)
I'm pretty sure anyway.

Not that I pirate anything anyway.

[Mulch]

Do they just look for P2P connections? Because if that's the case I could be accused for piracy because I hosted a server on blockland.

[Alyx Vance]

Chances are people will find a way around it.

[IkeTheGeneric]

This really won't be any issue for me since I don't pirate anything at all lol

I mean, it's bad for the company and it's illegal so

[steve5451]

They will probably freak out if you're using torrents at all.

[SPooK]

But not all torrents are illegal. So I don't see how that would work :/

[Becquerel]

But not all torrents are illegal. So I don't see how that would work :/

this

[yuhwryu]

I'm sure torrents can be replaced.

[Bisjac]

well not all piracy is done with torrents either.

im sure isps have a list of sites and ip's they already will be monitoring on the 1st