FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE, an internet activist group, advocating for a free, open and censorship free internet has stated that the major ISP's (Internet Service Providers) have a new "Six Strike" policy regarding "Sharing copy-written material".If you disagree with HOLLYWOOD and the RIAA spying and feel these new policies will kill VIRAL MARKETING, abuse privacy and provoke censorship sign this petition:
https://cms.fightforthefuture.org/six-strikes/
FROM AN ANONYMOUS POSTER ON FFTF:
who is this helping, exactly? what if we share files by bands that SPECIFICALLY SAID hey, share this, will you?
ITP V.013 EDITORS NOTE:
These draconian copyright laws will kill underground music promotion via viral marketing, the marketing and PR won't have jobs, and these policies will kill underground music pandering to the "old model" there fore defeating the purpose, completely retarded idea.
Extreme metal and underground music does not get airplay on MTV or radio (as they rarely play MUSIC anymore in between reality TV shows, HEADBANGERS BALL is cancelled, and other than college radio, extreme metal bands are "too extreme" for mainstream radio and no we don't do radio edits to fit in commercials or format in-between payola scandals.) as VIRAL MARKETING (INTERNET) is the only and most substantial marketing. The old model of music and entertainment promotion never has, and never will work for indie and extreme artists.
Why bite the hand that feeds instead of insuring the internet and viral marketing works for the entertainment industry?
FROM FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE:
Don't Be Fooled: "Six Strikes" Will Undoubtedly Harm Open Wireless
In a recent blog post, Jill Lesser, Executive Director of the Center for Copyright Information, responded to widespread concerns that the copyright surveillance machine known as the Copyright Alert System—or "Six Strikes"—would cripple libraries and cafes that provided open wireless networks. The title of said post: "CAS Will Not Harm Public Wi-Fi."
We disagree.
One key and enduring problem is the CCI's blinkered view of open wireless. Lesser protests that the "vast majority of businesses, including those like Starbucks that provide legitimate open Wi-Fi connections, will have an Internet connection that is tailored to a business operation." Well, maybe. As of now, few large Internet service providers (ISPs) allow for open wireless through their corporate Internet plans—and even then, it usually requires a special agreement between the business and the ISP.
In any event, the notion that some "legitimate open Wi-Fi connections" are protected provides little comfort. Open wireless can—and should—mean much, much more than services provided by deep-pocketed businesses like Starbucks negotiating special deals with giant ISPs. As theOpen Wireless Movement aims to explain, the benefits of open wireless should be available in all spaces—commercial, residential, and public. Having ubiquitous access to the Internet through shared connections protects privacy, promotes innovation, and serves the public good.
Yet the copyright surveillance machine operates by sending users alerts that directly undermine this laudable goal. For example, the CAS process purportedly begins by warning users to ensure their "wireless connection is password protected." The message this send to supporters of open wireless is obvious: Big Content and major ISPs are working together to stifle the movement just as it is gaining real legs around the United States.
Everybody should have the right and ability to run open wireless networks for the benefit of themselves, their guests, and their neighbors. Let's not kid ourselves into thinking the corporate interests of copyright lobbyists are important enough to thwart beneficial Internet practices and policies.
Lesser herself admits the copyright surveillance machine will overreach, harming many small businesses that provide an open wireless connection:
Depending on the type of Internet service they subscribe to, very small businesses like a home-office or a local real estate office may have an Internet connection that is similar from a network perspective to a residential connection... The practical result is that if an employee of the small business, or someone using an open Wi-Fi connection at the business, engages in infringing activity the primary account owner would receive Alerts.
Her best response is a red herring:
Nonetheless, these small business accounts would not be subject to disconnection under the CAS any more than a residential subscriber would – termination is not part of the CAS.
Termination may not be part of the CAS, but that's not the point—the program still uses "protecting copyright" as an excuse to seriously hinder a user's online experience. For example, CAS involves not just "education" but also "Mitigation Measures," such as slowing down Internet speeds to 256 kbps for days—rendering your connection all but unusable in today's era of videochats and Netflix.
Lesser doesn't think that's a problem. As she told the radio show On The Media: "The reduction of speed, which one or more of the ISPs will be using as a mitigation measure, is first of all only 48 hours, which is far from termination."
But that's 48 hours of lower productivity and limited communication across the globe, based on nothing more than a mere allegation of copyright infringement.
Internet users, we have a choice to make about how we govern the Internet. We can aim to maximize the effectiveness of our infrastructure, encouraging secure open wireless networks and expanding both bandwidth and the number of devices that can use it. Or, we can decide that enforcing the copyrights of a few entrenched content companies is more important than having well-functioning Internet infrastructure.
At EFF, we'll choose protecting the Internet over protecting outdated business models every time. Join us.
Starting Monday, Comcast, Verizon, Cablevision, AT&T and Time Warner will start spying on their customers -- watching everything you share and download. If they even suspect you of sharing copyrighted material, they can interrupt your connection.
Starting Monday, the biggest Internet providers launch their "Six Strikes" operation -- officially beginning a new era of spying for Hollywood. They can slow down or shut off your internet connection without any due process, claiming copyright infringement
But we don't have to be a part of it. Protect your Internet.
We can all boycott the Six Strikes "Copyright Alert System."
Everyone needs to get a Virtual Private Network (VPN) right now. This is easy to install software that gives you effectively anonymous Internet access that can't be tampered with by Six Strikes' spying.
There are many great VPN services out there, but if you use the button below to get one from Private Internet Access, they'll donate 40% to Fight for the Future, and we'll use it to launch a camapaign to shut down Six Strikes once and for all. And in the meantime, you'll be completely protected!
Boycott Six Strikes! Get a VPN FROM DEMAND PROGRESS:
Six Strikes is here.
Beginning today, AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
That's right. The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process,users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
After a year of back room dealing with the MPAA and RIAA, the nation's top ISPs have agreed to use the so-called "Copyright Alert System" (or "Six Strikes") to go after customers suspected of file-sharing
Following a series of escalating warnings, the plan would allow ISPs to slow down, or "throttle," the Internet connection of suspected copyright violators.
And if you want to contest the accusation? That will cost you $35.
The new plan would jeopardize open and public WIFI networks, and lead to widespread wrongful accusations for those who share a network at home, in a WIFI hot spot, or in the workplace.
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Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-
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