All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012

[whatpipeswhy]

Warning for typical generic signalboost crap incoming.

According to this article, dated March 15, 2012:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/webnews/major-isps-turn-into-copyright-police-by-july-says-riaa/

"File-sharers, beware: By

Comments

[gargargarrick]

I'm not even that worried about the piracy part -- what I'm worried about are the other group of people the RIAA doesn't like. If they've agreed to this, then no matter what they say, ISPs are going to start blocking people who just don't buy enough RIAA content, whether or not they've actually done any law-infringing.
Hell, already Nina Paley's movie was removed from Youtube Germany under false pretenses just because a German movie company didn't like her producing an alternative to their stuff, and they knew that as a non-citizen she couldn't do much about it. I can easily see Jamendo, ccMixter and other completely legal music sites vanishing over here, just for being competitors.
God, this has been a grim week for basic civil liberties.

[whatpipeswhy]

Dear god WHAT. WHAAAAAAAAAAAT. D: D: D: I remember once hearing that someone managed to remove a lady gaga video on the woman's own YouTube channel by filing a false copyright claim, but I never found out if that was true. Finding out that a similar thing definitely DID happen to someone just gives me chills.

Yea, this is a bad, bad direction for the internet to be going in.