Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbying Firm

http://torrentfreak.com/six-strikes-independent-expert-is-riaas-former-lobbying-firm-121022/

by evo_9 • 14 years ago

141 34 14 years ago

This "six-strikes" is bound for failure, because if I were a user and I got one notification from my ISP, I would be shopping around for a new ISP.

I wonder how long ISPs would play ball if users adopted a "One stike and _you're_ out" policy.

pyre2• 14 years ago

So you shop for another ISP, and your choices are all part of the "six-strikes" plan. Then what? Internet abstinence?

pdeuchler2• 14 years ago

Economic forces.

Once this happens to enough people a new provider will spring up catering to those banned from ISP's following the "six-strikes" plan.

marklabedz• 14 years ago

I wish I had multiple, legitimate (aka not dial-up, not 4mbit adsl), choices for an ISP.

glimcat• 14 years ago

I wish I had more than two choices at 4 mbit. You can pick the phone company or the cable company. Neither is very good, and neither cares - they don't need to.

Heck, I wish I had one choice where I could call tech support, tell them that I've been getting dropped packets and 3000 ms pings for over a week, and not have them blow me off because the bandwidth tests fine.

theevocater2• 14 years ago

If only there was competition in even the largest cities. Large parts of NYC (largest city in the US) are offer only Time Warner. As in you cannot get anything else other than wifi/dialup.

georgemcbay• 14 years ago

Haha... do you think I'd be using Time Warner (my current ISP) if I had any other option short of moving?

HalcyonicStorm• 14 years ago

Isn't that the truth. Can't wait for Google Fiber to come to my area...though I may have to wait a long while

GigabyteCoin• 14 years ago

It's the same up in Canada. The Canadian Government "broke up" Bell and forced them to allow other companies to provide content services. But now we are just stuck with multiple monopolies.

Don't like shaw OR cogeco OR rogers (depending on where you live)? Well, too bad!

jlgreco• 14 years ago

I think 6 strikes will fail because although I (and I suspect most people) usually only get relatively obscure things (long tail..), I am still always paranoid about being slapped with a lawsuit.

With any "strikes" system I can download in peace, secure in the knowledge that nobody cares and that if anybody decides that they do care, that I get a warning before the lawsuits roll in.

jseliger• 14 years ago

>because if I were a user and I got one notification from my ISP, I would be shopping around for a new ISP.

If I was a user with choices, I'd do the same. I live in Tucson, and I have Comcast, which offers 12 mb/sec down on my plan, which is the medium one, or Qwest, which offers. . . 1.5 mb / sec down. Max. That's a joke. I'd have to move if Qwest were my only choice.

krichman• 14 years ago

I would be shopping around for a new ISP right now if there was even a single alternative.

beloch• 14 years ago

Just in case anyone had any illusions about this being something other than blatant regulatory capture...

pyre2• 14 years ago

Regulatory capture usually describes government regulators ruling in favor of industry, only to leave office and be hired out by those companies that they helped (instead of helping the general public).

I wouldn't call it regulatory capture when an industry attempts to regulate itself.

Bud• 14 years ago

This industry is manifestly not attempting to do that. The very subject of this article is the laughable state of affairs with regard to this.

nitrogen• 14 years ago

The six strikes system was organized with the help of the White House, so it is regulation in all but name. The fact that it is extralegal is troubling, because this means it is beyond the control of the people (via their elected representatives).

001sky• 14 years ago

Sins of commission vs omission, both are a problem. This has tacit approval as a PC policy hack by the bad guys. Oh, and its about as voluntary as collusion. Or a protection racket. Just enough plausible deniability, opacity, and one-step-removedness to keep it under the radar. But I hope I;m wrong. =/

Fando• 14 years ago

Wow what a hopeless system. Wouldn't be surprised if this was designed by greedy numb-wits.

dragunblazr• 14 years ago

first off, this will never pass through congress, second its nearly impossible to calculate six strikes without using kyoto protocols from EACH and EVERY adsys data mongrem. If people are really that gullible these days i give up, movin' to switzerland people!

nsmartt• 14 years ago

This doesn't need to pass through Congress. It's a company choice.

icelancer• 14 years ago

>movin' to switzerland people!

If becoming a naturalized citizen of Switzerland was so easy, I would have done it by now. So would many people. But it's nearly impossible.

officemonkey3• 14 years ago

You don't need to be a citizen, just a resident.

ekianjo• 14 years ago

This is just like what happened in France with the Hadopi two years ago where the "independent" commission was made of ex-executives of majors like Universal and others... With no representation from actual internet users, of course. "Democracy" is literally an abuse of language to describe our modern political systems. It should be rather described as "Oligarchy", but that is not a good name to brand it to the people.

Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbying Firm

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