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Starting next week, most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new copyright enforcement system that could slow the Internet to a crawl and force violators to take educational courses.
A source with direct knowledge of the Copyright Alert System (CAS), who asked not to be named, has told the Daily Dot that the five participating Internet service providers (ISPs) will start the controversial program Monday.
The ISPs—industry giants AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon—will launch their versions of the CAS on different days throughout the week. Comcast is expected to be the first, on Monday.
» via Daily Dot
This is crazy talk. The RIAA & the MPAA are going to slow down your internet and make you watch videos to punish you for downloading copywritten material? No due process? Your ISP is now the police of your content, not for the governement but for corporations. And there s no legal process. This will have serious ramifications.