Copyright alert system (aka the six strikes program)

glennmagusharvey

So if you block their computer's IP address from communicating with your computer, does that nullify the whole tactic?

Naas_Human

By the way, there's an article on Wikipedia, with a list of the companies participating. I'm not sure what the extent will be, since I don't know whose parent companies these all are.

Bee

And what if somebody pirates from a public ip, like a cyber cafe? Wouldn't that lead to the operator/owner being punished for the customer(s)? Not to mention inconvenience anyone else using the computers there.

The participating companies are on the record saying they don't really give a shit if cyber cafes get boned by this.

It isn't legislation. It's a voluntary watchdog program.

Which is somehow more disturbing, to me.

Yes.  Because effectively nobody is accountable for abuse of this system.

Central Avenue

Stuff like this just goes to reaffirm my belief that the biggest threat to our freedom comes not from the government, but from corporations that will use their power to crush anything that comes between them and the almighty dollar.

glennmagusharvey

No, that obviously won't ever happen because corporations never mean to threaten people's freedoms, so that means they won't.

Super Lazuli

So I'm curious as to how this'll affect someone like me who does most of their illegal downloading via sites like Zippyshare which aren't torrents at all. Is that just outside their jurisdiction or what?

Also should I be uninstalling Bittorrent?

ClockworkUniverse

Is that just outside their jurisdiction or what?

They don't really have a "jurisdiction" per se. They just aren't bothering with that.

Super Lazuli

You know what I mean.

ClockworkUniverse

No, I actually don't. You asked if it was outside their jurisdiction. There is no jurisdiction involved, nor anything resembling one.

Super Lazuli

Figurative jurisdiction. You answered my question

They just aren't bothering with that.

so I'm not seeing what you're not understanding. 

Nova

Dude, you asked if it was out of their jurisdiction. That's where the misunderstanding comes from. It's pretty simple.

Ponicalica

If it's not a torrent, six strikes won't apply, according to this.

 

Furthermore, from what I've heard about these companies doing the deed, they do it by checking IPs only on the top hundred or so torrents.

Central Avenue

@Lazuli: "Jurisdiction" doesn't mean what you think it means.

Asking if it's in their jurisdiction is essentially asking if they have the authority to do so, which isn't really an applicable question. What I think you meant to ask if whether it falls within the scope of this system.

DYRE

Also, even if they wanted to interfere with people using cyberlockers, it would actually be impossible, since there's no way for a third party to find out who's downloading what.

But it's not like this is actually going to have a big impact on torrenting either, really.

ClockworkUniverse

^^That, basically. When you say something entirely other than what you mean, don't get annoyed if people fail to psychically deduce what you meant to say.

Super Lazuli

I'm not annoyed, that's just how I've always used the word "jurisdiction".

Actually most of the people I know use "jurisdiction" as a synonym for "range", "scope" and so on. Maybe it's a regional thing, I don't know.