Copyright Alert System - is this a loving joke?

[Blockzillahead]

You agreed to their terms and conditions, no?

Their terms and conditions don't contain anything about CAS?

[Ad Bot]

[dorkdotdan]

Their terms and conditions don't contain anything about CAS?

The ISPs—industry giants AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon—will launch their versions of the CAS on different days throughout the week. Comcast is expected to be the first, on Monday.

Obviously it must if they are making it part of their service.

[Blockzillahead]

Obviously it must if they are making it part of their service.

I guess you're right.

[Bisjac]

see its always been that a publisher like.... viacom or EA or someone. could just check out a popular torrent, gather up a whole list of the united states IPs and respective ISPs they belong to.

then just all at once, go to a court for massive warrents against isp in the US to just hand over personal info of the people who torrented the stuff.
then just take em to court and such. sue some 12yo boy (parents) for 50k just for luls.

now publishers cant just go to the courts demanding such things. they no longer have (all) of those rights.
all they can do is complain to the isp, and the isp deals with people on their own. with an angry letter.


seems like a great thing to me.


the 6 strike thing would only ever apply to like tracker servers for torrents, or people who are just dumb and seed 1000s of things for some reason.
if we ever got a 1 strike letter, we would just lul at it and hang it on the wall.

[fred da kiko]

see its always been that a publisher like.... viacom or EA or someone. could just check out a popular torrent, gather up a whole list of the united states IPs and respective ISPs they belong to.

then just all at once, go to a court for massive warrents against isp in the US to just hand over personal info of the people who torrented the stuff.
then just take em to court and such. sue some 12yo boy (parents) for 50k just for luls.

now publishers cant just go to the courts demanding such things. they no longer have (all) of those rights.
all they can do is complain to the isp, and the isp deals with people on their own. with an angry letter.


seems like a great thing to me.


the 6 strike thing would only ever apply to like tracker servers for torrents, or people who are just dumb and seed 1000s of things for some reason.
if we ever got a 1 strike letter, we would just lul at it and hang it on the wall.

That actually sounds pretty good, it actually makes pirating a more viable option.

[Blockzillahead]

see its always been that a publisher like.... viacom or EA or someone. could just check out a popular torrent, gather up a whole list of the united states IPs and respective ISPs they belong to.

then just all at once, go to a court for massive warrents against isp in the US to just hand over personal info of the people who torrented the stuff.
then just take em to court and such. sue some 12yo boy (parents) for 50k just for luls.

now publishers cant just go to the courts demanding such things. they no longer have (all) of those rights.
all they can do is complain to the isp, and the isp deals with people on their own. with an angry letter.


seems like a great thing to me.


the 6 strike thing would only ever apply to like tracker servers for torrents, or people who are just dumb and seed 1000s of things for some reason.
if we ever got a 1 strike letter, we would just lul at it and hang it on the wall.

Looking at it this way actually sounds decent. Too bad there's like only 10 people who see this. The rest of thousands do not.

[Doomonkey]

Its illegal for us to DDOS other people but for some reason our internet providers can do it to us.
Government logic

I'm not sure you know what a Distributed Denial of Service attack is.

[Rainzx¹]

I'm not sure you know what a Distributed Denial of Service attack is.

Uh...

Severely reducing their connection speeds.

Unusually slow network performance (opening files or accessing web sites)

Regardless, I was using it as a metaphor

[RagnaTheBroedge]

the law doesn't work on metaphors

[Doomonkey]

Uh...
Regardless, I was using it as a metaphor

A Distributed Denial of Service attack is when you eat up someones' bandwidth by spamming them with requests from a large quantity of attacking computers. Slowing network performance is the effect.

[Alyx Vance]

Good thing I don't use a major ISP, we use one that is only known to this state. Possibly just this county.

[devildogelite]

Uh...
Regardless, I was using it as a metaphor

Throttling an internet connection is nowhere near the same thing as a DDOS. So many people on here absolutely suck richard at metaphors.

[Kochieboy]

Go forget yourselves TWC

[Neon]

America is becoming the land of exceeding quotation marks.

Land of the "free", "home" of the "brave".

[dkamm65]

The only reason any of you should have a problem with this is if it stops you from pirating things.

Stop breaking the law and they'll stop introducing measures to keep you from breaking the law.