dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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Hercules, CA | Fail!
This has EPIC written all over it!
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N10Cities
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1 edit | said by dadkins  :This has EPIC written all over it! Possibly, but still better than people receiving lawsuits..... |
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ViRGEdx
join:2002-10-25
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Epic? Sure. But I don't think it'll fail.
The RIAA will eventually get enough data to convince the ISP beancounters that they're going to save more money than acting on these requests will cost*. There's a finite list of ISPs, and an even smaller list of good ones; this system doesn't have to be perfect to scare people away from pirating materials.
*think of all the Comcast subscribers that hit near their cap; that's 250GB of backhaul traffic you save on every time you can a $50 customer |
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Kearnstd
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but it also depends on ISPs running a database, someone gets dropped by comcast do you honestly think ATT/Verizon will turn down a high use customer that will buy their most expensive speed tiers.
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ViRGEdx
join:2002-10-25
| said by Kearnstd :but it also depends on ISPs running a database A database is an optimality thing, but it's not necessary. Once you get blacklisted by your cable and DSL providers separately, most people won't have any other good choices. |
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BetaTron
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said by dadkins :This has EPIC written all over it! +1
I'm so tired of this nonsense. They (the four letter acronym people) seem to have all the answers but they can't figure out a way to deliver truly quality content when we want it and how we want it, at a fair price of course. |
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kfsutops
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said by ViRGEdx :*think of all the Comcast subscribers that hit near their cap; that's 250GB of backhaul traffic you save on every time you can a $50 customer That is assuming the ISP's pay by the gigabyte. Which they do not.
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nothing00
join:2001-06-10
Centereach, NY
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Two interesting side effects
1) People sitting on the fence about pirating now have a green light to pirate until they get a notice in the mail.
2) Are you "banned for life"? Sure, there's getting kicked off of "your ISP" but is the sentence a life sentence? Can you resubscribe at a later time? Are you put on an Orwellian blacklist and banned from all broadband everywhere? Does everyone in your household get denied broadband forever?
That would be sooooo cool. |
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Endgame
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Re: Fail!
Don't worry peeps, they'll get what's coming to them when the economy goes belly up next year and people stop giving them money all together. Evil always knows how to shoot itself in the foot feet. 
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Kearnstd
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Re: Two interesting side effects
said by nothing00 :1) People sitting on the fence about pirating now have a green light to pirate until they get a notice in the mail. 2) Are you "banned for life"? Sure, there's getting kicked off of "your ISP" but is the sentence a life sentence? Can you resubscribe at a later time? Are you put on an Orwellian blacklist and banned from all broadband everywhere? Does everyone in your household get denied broadband forever? That would be sooooo cool. that would pretty much be impossible since the ISP has no way to know the SSNs of other people in the house. so if the kid moves out it would be impossible for him to be blacklisted since his SSN was never on the services.
of course the fact everything in life is locked to SSNs is a whole different issue that needs to be resolved well before we worry about non economy effecting things like The Pirate Bay.
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to Kearnstd
Re: Fail!
Nope. The big ISPs are whores. They will take any customer for any reason. At their size they only care about subscriber numbers because their model makes more money in volume, not per subscriber profits. |
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k1ll3rdr4g0n
join:2005-03-19
Homer Glen, IL
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Re: Fail!
said by dadkins :This has EPIC written all over it! Pass the popcorn, this will be better than a crappy movie that the MPAA support! 
You know who this will 'scare'? 2 people. And those are the people who are using torrents non stop to download 0 day releases. |
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swhx7
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Elbonia | reply to dadkins
Re: Fail!
Maybe "three strikes" can be a good policy sometimes - how about, three false accusations and a company is not allowed to bother ISPs any more! |
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funchords
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Washington, DC
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said by ViRGEdx :*think of all the Comcast subscribers that hit near their cap; that's 250GB of backhaul traffic you save on every time you can a $50 customer Why, because people won't listen to music or watch video if they have to get it legally?
The smart ISPs know better -- fighting P2P file-sharing is the wrong battle, because this is simply consumer demand being fueled by the want of multimedia to fill big-screens and iPods.
Plus the ISPs are also video-delivery companies that fight their own licensing battles -- the excesses of copyright mean they don't get anything for free unless its 70 years old. They know first hand how ridiculous that is, and how impossible it is to bargain with monopolistic power.
What good is the 500-channel system if there's nothing interesting on? How relevant is programming from before the U.S. truly was "the Great 48"? So why offer the 500-channel system if nobody can afford to subscribe? ISPs aren't in a hurry to embrace studio power -- they want exclusive rights ended sooner just as much as we do. (Isn't it true that if somehow the studios could eliminate simple file-sharing, it would just strengthen the studio's own monopoly power and Video providers would pay even more abusive rates for programming content?)
But, either way, you can't fight demand -- nobody can fight demand. One might as well try to sweep the water back into the ocean with a pushbroom -- the day will be busy, but nothing will actually be accomplished.
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Dallas, TX | reply to swhx7
You know, the companies under the MAFIAA's control would never agree to to this. |
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JohnQPublic
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1 edit | reply to dadkins
Leave it to the Shylocks at the RIAA and MPAA to convince ISPs that doing their bidding is not only beneficial to them, they should shoulder the costs of doing such, and should ultimately send them money to boot.
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redxii
too big to fail
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Texas | reply to dadkins
Apparently, France needs a law to do this.
Here, we see who's really in charge... |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
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Mullica Hill, NJ
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said by k1ll3rdr4g0n :said by dadkins :This has EPIC written all over it! Pass the popcorn, this will be better than a crappy movie that the MPAA support! You know who this will 'scare'? 2 people. And those are the people who are using torrents non stop to download 0 day releases. and yet the studio itself is the #1 leak source of non cam jobs for 0day DVD quality downloads.
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