U.S. 'Six Strikes' Internet Warning System Ready This Year

[dalmvern]

So, Alert #3...I get an online box that I cant close and must click through. Oh no! Its not like I have a magic key that forces a window to close...oh wait, its two keys, Alt+F4.

Being completely honest, I never pirate, always pay for whatever because I think its right to do so, but this system makes me want to pirate stuff just to see what it takes to defeat it.

Though I think it would be funny if a hacker say...spoofed the sponsoring senators IP addresses as torrent mirrors.

 

[Guest]

Internet is a human right. (As long as you aren't a pedo)

What gives them the right to enforce this strike system? They just decided to do it. No one voted Someone should sue....

Anyway yes piracy is bad but so is this.

 

[Christopher1]

[citation][nom]igot1forya[/nom]Who's up for a private Darknet? Anyone?[/citation]

Already exists. It's called Freenet. Problem with it is that it has gotten a 'bad' reputation as being something that, like TOR, can be used to share child pornography without ANY chance of being caught.

 

[Christopher1]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]Is there a law that says you have to limit how other people use your network?[/citation]

Sorry to doublepost, but a decision by a federal court makes that answer unequivocally NO!
The story is on TorrentFreak at the moment and it's very well sourced. A federal judge basically shot down the "On basis of IP" lawsuits and said "Sorry bastards.... gotta have something more than that!"

I see it soon being expanded to cases where someone is accused of trading child pornography solely based on an IP address as well, with that not being enough to get a warrant.

 

[punahou1]

Great now I can look forward toward receiving more SPAM in the form of these strike notifications from jerks spoofing yet another government site....

 

[Ephebus]

I wouldn't have purchased 99% of the CD's, DVD's and other media items I've purchased over the past 10 years if I hadn't found out about those artists and downloaded material from them first. Most of these artists I'd never have gotten to know if it weren't for the internet. The music industry should be more concerned about stopping releasing CD's (and SACD's) mastered in the "loudness war" style like they have been doing since the late 90's, destroying both classic albums and new albums with horribly mastered, low dynamic range compressed and clipped audio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

http://www.turnmeup.org

http://www.dr.loudness-war.info

http://www.last.fm/group/The+Death+of+Dynamic+Range+-++people+against+Loudness+War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTBoMlsw-0I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkkqsN69Jac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMNJEC1G-fE

 

[f-14]

i'll tell you this much if i buy another movie with encryption like 'hurt locker's i will d/l cracked copy of the movie to watch on my 1998 dvd player that is also my 1200w surround sound system, if i get any kind of warning from the ISP i will SUE the copy right holder himself and raise the biggest ruckus over such abominable business practices.

imagine if books came scrambled so you couldn't read them unless you had glasses that were that stereoscopic 1950's b.s. they designed and called 3-D and those of us that already have glasses for sight can't use those glasses to read them esp bifocal glasses people, you bought and paid for a product and are not getting the use that was promised from said product, that has always been the standard for any such win-able lawsuit.

 

[f-14]

[citation][nom]DRosencraft[/nom]My only question is how much information about you this plan will gather. Other than that, it's not a huge deal. Whatever you may think, pirating is illegal. Receiving stolen goods is illegal. Technically they don't even need to give you six strikes, they could just track you down and haul you off to jail, let the legal system deal with you. This should also put an end to anyone who claims they didn't know they were pirating since by strike four it would just be willful ignorance on the part of the individual. Keep in mind that anyone actively circumventing these measures will likely be pilling on evidence against themselves if they're ever caught. Like I said, I do have some privacy concerns, but it so far doesn't sound like something ISPs are unable to do right now if they wanted, which is another problem entirely.[/citation]

actually privateering is a legal profession in america, so long as you get a letter of marque from congress or the president, file the appropriate paper work declaring your privateering business, pay taxes on your illegally gotten gains the IRS doesn't even care.

 

[fonzy]

If this passes in the USA then it won't be long after to pass in Lap dog Canada. Just like everything else.

 

[Guest]

So effectively Weird Al had it correct. "It doesn't matter if you're a grandma, or a seven year old girl. We'll treat you like the dirty rotten criminal scum you are." I love the RIAA! (sarcasm at its strongest.)

 

[fb39ca4]

At least you can ignore the propaganda.

 

[moonzy]

Hope it FAILS within a year or so.

 

[shin0bi272]

Only the lawyers and huge egos of musicians and movie stars can think its ok to announce that anyone who doesnt buy their music/movie should be sued and think that that's fine. Yeah sue your fans see how much more money that makes you. FFS Lars himself pirated death magnetic. Can you sue yourself?

 

[rohitbaran]

[citation][nom]jellico[/nom]Hell, you don't even need private darknet to defeat this. A proxy/anonymizer or a public darknet will do just fine. Off the top of my head:http://www.freenetproject.orghttp://www.hidemyass.com[/citation]
Hidemyass actually ratted someone.

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

Can't I just delete the emails.... or auto direct them to spam....

 

[dalethepcman]

I highly recommend you do your "extracurricular" internet activities from a linux live cd on a public computer, or for the lazier hacktivists use a windows 8 to go disk.