Marketing... They don't want to risk it getting caught in the current backlash against 3-strikes laws.
Owen On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:13 , Joly MacFie <j...@punkcast.com> wrote: > ISOC-NY ran a half day conflab on 6 strikes (which incidentally - and for > reasons that escape me - is a name the Copyright Alert System perpetrators > wish would not be used) last November 15. > > A full archive is available at http://isoc-ny.org/p2/4527 > > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jason Baugher <ja...@thebaughers.com>wrote: > >> We don't do content inspection. We don't really want to know what our >> customers are doing, and even if we did, there's not enough time in the day >> to spend paying attention. When we get complaints from the various >> copyright agencies, we warn the customer to stop. When we hit a certain >> number of complaints, its bye-bye customer. >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Jeroen Massar <jer...@unfix.org> wrote: >> >>> On 2012-12-04 11:51, Nick B wrote: >>>> In a related note, I wonder if the six-strike rule would violate the >>> ISP's >>>> safe harbor, as it's clearly content inspection. >>> >>> As performed in France, what happens is that some copyright owner >>> contacts the ISP that IP address a.b.c.d had accessed/served copyright >>> infringing data at date/time dd-mm-yyyy HH:mm providing some kind of >>> detail on how they figured that out. >>> >>> That report is a 'strike' and gets forwarded to the user. >>> >>> If that then happens 6 times they are blocked. >>> >>> The ISP as such does not do any content inspection. >>> >>> It is though assumed that some ISPs simply count bytes and that they do >>> some investigation themselves when you reach a certain bandwidth >>> threshold (it seems to correlate that copyright infringers are >>> downloading a lot more than normal webbrowsing users...) >>> >>> Greets, >>> Jeroen >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast > WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com > http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com > VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -
