Please sign petition telling ISP companies not to enforce copyright infringement claims
I encourage you to follow the link below and sign up. Nearly everyone these days downloads or accesses content that the entertainment industry classifies as infringing their copyrights. The ISP companies have, under pressure from the entertainment industry, promised to assist in protecting those copyrights by cutting off service to people who download or access infringing content. That's, like, nearly everyone. Please sign the petition to let ISPs know how objectionable this is. The solution to this is to rewrite the stupid copyright laws, not to have ISP companies become an enforcement arm for the entertainment industry.
From nrrrdy_grrrl's journal:
With their efforts to pass SOPA now a failure, the entertainment industry went directly to 5 of the top American ISPs and, with the help of pressure from government officials, persuaded them to adopt a “voluntary” version of so-called "graduated response" policies. But the millions of subscribers who will be affected by this back-door deal weren't invited to those negotiations. Under the new agreement, unproven accusations of infringement could lead to escalating consequences for individual users including contact from Federal law enforcement, a reduction in the user's access to bandwidth and account suspensions.
Tell AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon to respect their users' rights, and demand that they never terminate a user account as part of a “graduated response” program.
Click Here to Participate in this Letter Campaign
From nrrrdy_grrrl's journal:
With their efforts to pass SOPA now a failure, the entertainment industry went directly to 5 of the top American ISPs and, with the help of pressure from government officials, persuaded them to adopt a “voluntary” version of so-called "graduated response" policies. But the millions of subscribers who will be affected by this back-door deal weren't invited to those negotiations. Under the new agreement, unproven accusations of infringement could lead to escalating consequences for individual users including contact from Federal law enforcement, a reduction in the user's access to bandwidth and account suspensions.
Tell AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon to respect their users' rights, and demand that they never terminate a user account as part of a “graduated response” program.
Click Here to Participate in this Letter Campaign