"Warning to Copyright Enforcers - Three Strikes and You're Out" - Cory Doctorow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/01/internet.copyright
"I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate.
Having been disconnected, your customers can only find out about your product offerings by ringing you up and asking, or by requesting a printed brochure. Perhaps you could give all your salespeople fax machines so they can fax urgent information up and down the supply chain. And there's always the phone - just make sure you've got a bunch of phone books in the office, because you'll never Google another phone number.
Call it a modest proposal in the Swiftian sense if you must, but I'm deadly serious.
You see, the big copyright companies - record labels, broadcasters, film studios, software companies - are lobbying in the halls of power around the world (including Westminster) for a three strikes rule for copyright infringers. They want to oblige internet service providers (ISPs) to sever the broadband links of any customer who has been thrice accused of downloading infringing material, and to oblige web-hosting companies to terminate the accounts of anyone accused of sticking infringing material on a web server three times."
Companies in Canada are lobbying for this, as are companies in the USA, and in the UK. Your ISP could be given the power to cut you off from your internet connection. Just think about what that would do, and how many different tasks you use the internet for every day...
"I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate.
Having been disconnected, your customers can only find out about your product offerings by ringing you up and asking, or by requesting a printed brochure. Perhaps you could give all your salespeople fax machines so they can fax urgent information up and down the supply chain. And there's always the phone - just make sure you've got a bunch of phone books in the office, because you'll never Google another phone number.
Call it a modest proposal in the Swiftian sense if you must, but I'm deadly serious.
You see, the big copyright companies - record labels, broadcasters, film studios, software companies - are lobbying in the halls of power around the world (including Westminster) for a three strikes rule for copyright infringers. They want to oblige internet service providers (ISPs) to sever the broadband links of any customer who has been thrice accused of downloading infringing material, and to oblige web-hosting companies to terminate the accounts of anyone accused of sticking infringing material on a web server three times."
Companies in Canada are lobbying for this, as are companies in the USA, and in the UK. Your ISP could be given the power to cut you off from your internet connection. Just think about what that would do, and how many different tasks you use the internet for every day...