А между тем с Запада просачивается запашок
"It’s here. Starting today, all five major internet providers will launch a new era of spying for Hollywood, a collaboration known as the Six Strikes “Copyright Alert System.”
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon will all be watching every file you download using Bittorrent. And if they even suspect you of copyright infringement, they could slow or even cut off your Internet connection, all outside of the courts and without having to prove anything.
So, take your business elsewhere, right? Trouble is, you probably can’t. Thanks to bad competition policy and bad luck, most Americans only have one choice for truly high speed Internet: their local cable company. Ugh.
But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do. Individually, it’s simple: you can protect your rights with a VPN. A VPN (Virtual Private Network) routes your traffic through a virtual ISP you can trust, and stops Hollywood and your scummy “real” ISP from spying on you."
They’re one of the cheapest we’ve found (~$3/month for a year) and the easiest to set up-- which is super important if we want to make this accessible to everyone. Plus they don’t keep logs, so if the bad guys want to go after you and your family for something you say or do online, it is much harder for them to get your name and location. VPNs also protect your personal information when you’re using public wifi networks. If you’d like to shop around, there’s a great list of other pro-privacy VPNs here. We don’t have any deals with these ones and that’s fine; the important thing is that you find one you’re comfortable with, and sign up.
Just savor the sweetness of this for a second. For the cost of a taco, you can take away *any* power your ISP has to spy on you or undermine your Internet under “Six Strikes.” Poof. Gone. And by protecting your family and friends from six strikes, you help fund our work to fight it.
This might seem like a band-aid, but actually it goes a long way to creating the kind of world we want: the company responsible for your connection to the web *should* be separate from the local company laying the wires, so you can choose the providers that do the best job of each. They *shouldn’t* be the same company selling you your TV shows-- that’s an obvious conflict of interest. And there should be lots of companies competing for your business (with VPNs, there are many) instead of arrogant, lazy, local monopolies who can shove bad service and high prices down our throats (ahem, Comcast). ISPs could block VPNs, but since so many large businesses depend on them for security, there’d be a huge outcry if they did.
Best of all, VPNs make your internet access truly global. You can choose a server anywhere in the world, and if the country you’re in passes a SOPA-like law, it won’t affect you!
Of course, there’s a lot more to work to do. We need to hold Comcast and friends publicly accountable, break up their local monopolies, and make this kind of spying and tampering either illegal or unthinkable. More on that shortly.
In the meantime, protect yourself and make your Internet more awesome by signing up for a VPN. I got one a few months ago, and it feels so great to have access to the real, unf$#&edwith Internet.
Sincerely,
Holmes Wilson (and Evan, Mary, Tiffiniy, and the whole FFTF team)
http://www.fightforthefuture.org
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon will all be watching every file you download using Bittorrent. And if they even suspect you of copyright infringement, they could slow or even cut off your Internet connection, all outside of the courts and without having to prove anything.
So, take your business elsewhere, right? Trouble is, you probably can’t. Thanks to bad competition policy and bad luck, most Americans only have one choice for truly high speed Internet: their local cable company. Ugh.
But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do. Individually, it’s simple: you can protect your rights with a VPN. A VPN (Virtual Private Network) routes your traffic through a virtual ISP you can trust, and stops Hollywood and your scummy “real” ISP from spying on you."
They’re one of the cheapest we’ve found (~$3/month for a year) and the easiest to set up-- which is super important if we want to make this accessible to everyone. Plus they don’t keep logs, so if the bad guys want to go after you and your family for something you say or do online, it is much harder for them to get your name and location. VPNs also protect your personal information when you’re using public wifi networks. If you’d like to shop around, there’s a great list of other pro-privacy VPNs here. We don’t have any deals with these ones and that’s fine; the important thing is that you find one you’re comfortable with, and sign up.
Just savor the sweetness of this for a second. For the cost of a taco, you can take away *any* power your ISP has to spy on you or undermine your Internet under “Six Strikes.” Poof. Gone. And by protecting your family and friends from six strikes, you help fund our work to fight it.
This might seem like a band-aid, but actually it goes a long way to creating the kind of world we want: the company responsible for your connection to the web *should* be separate from the local company laying the wires, so you can choose the providers that do the best job of each. They *shouldn’t* be the same company selling you your TV shows-- that’s an obvious conflict of interest. And there should be lots of companies competing for your business (with VPNs, there are many) instead of arrogant, lazy, local monopolies who can shove bad service and high prices down our throats (ahem, Comcast). ISPs could block VPNs, but since so many large businesses depend on them for security, there’d be a huge outcry if they did.
Best of all, VPNs make your internet access truly global. You can choose a server anywhere in the world, and if the country you’re in passes a SOPA-like law, it won’t affect you!
Of course, there’s a lot more to work to do. We need to hold Comcast and friends publicly accountable, break up their local monopolies, and make this kind of spying and tampering either illegal or unthinkable. More on that shortly.
In the meantime, protect yourself and make your Internet more awesome by signing up for a VPN. I got one a few months ago, and it feels so great to have access to the real, unf$#&edwith Internet.
Sincerely,
Holmes Wilson (and Evan, Mary, Tiffiniy, and the whole FFTF team)
http://www.fightforthefuture.org