The largest American providers are introducing a plan to combat "pirates" on the Web



    In July 2011, a coalition comprising the largest US providers, AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cablevision and Time Warner Cable, signed an agreement to combat the "pirates" on the Web. The provisions of the agreement include several steps - from warning to punishment of the most malicious "pirates". The punishment plan contains only six steps for each specific “pirate”.

    Thus, providers are obligated to monitor copyright infringers, and send them messages about the inadmissibility of such actions. In total, six warnings are provided (because providers are not inclined to lose customers, right?), After which, as you can understand, malicious violators will still be punished by law. According to representatives of these organizations, most of the violations related to copyright occur due to misunderstandings, so the violator should not be punished, but warned, telling him about the "letter of the law" in relation to copyright.

    The plan, adopted in July last year, has not been implemented so far. He was put off all the time, and put off, and put off. But now, most likely, providers will nevertheless begin to implement the plan that was mentioned here. Over the next few weeks, providers will begin to act, several resources, including TorrentFreak, warn about this at once. Representatives of this resource managed to get a document showing that AT&T, for example, will work according to the specified plan from November 28.



    It is worth noting that providers will report IP offenders to such well-known organizations as MRAA and RIAA. These organizations, in turn, will appeal to the court with a request to allow the receipt of private data of violators from the provider. Well, the data obtained will already be used in further trials.

    At the same time, providers can independently take certain measures that will warn the "pirate" about the illegality of copyright infringement. Thus, providers, in addition to sending the mentioned messages, have the right to reduce the speed to the violator, or to redirect such a client to a page with a description of the letter of the copyright law.

    According to representatives of the coalition, the main task in relation to the "pirates" now is a warning, not a punishment. Well, if no warnings help, then punishment will follow. Here is such a prospect.

    Via mashable

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