Leaked Docs Show MPAA Unsure if Six Strikes Is Doing Anything A little less than two years ago, most of the large ISPs joined a new anti-piracy initiative crafted by the entertainment industry dubbed the Copyright Alert System. In CAS, users are given warning letters for copyright infringement as has long been industry practice, but ISPs will also give users a slap on the wrist for the behavior, ranging from brief filtering of websites (until users agree to receipt of "educational" material) to temporary throttling. While the CCI (the Center for Copyright Information, tasked with overseeing the program) has suggested six strikes has been a smashing success, quote: The U.S. system is “not yet at scale” or operating with “enough education support” according to the MPAA. As a result the CAS has not made an “impact on the overall [piracy] landscape."...“No current information as to the behavior of users who appear to stop P2P infringement – do not know whether [they are] migrating to other pirate systems or to lawful services,” the statement reads. That latter bit is a nod to the fact that most copyright infringers with a brain have simply shifted to the use of BitTorrent proxy services to hide their behavior from the eyes of their ISPs and entertainment industry infringement trackers. The MPAA's solution to this problem? Make the program bigger, get more ISPs on board, and bring in more industries to make claims. While the CCI (the Center for Copyright Information, tasked with overseeing the program) has suggested six strikes has been a smashing success, new leaked MPAA documents suggest the entertainment industry isn't actually sure if the new program is accomplishing much of anything:That latter bit is a nod to the fact that most copyright infringers with a brain have simply shifted to the use of BitTorrent proxy services to hide their behavior from the eyes of their ISPs and entertainment industry infringement trackers. The MPAA's solution to this problem? Make the program bigger, get more ISPs on board, and bring in more industries to make claims.







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Tuscaloosa, AL 1 edit 6 recommendations ISurfTooMuch Member Here's the problem What the RIAA/MPAA fail to grasp is that the main problem they face is that many people despise them. People feel they charge too much for an inferior product with restrictive DRM, and, when a service like Netflix comes along that actually offers some value, the industry tries to strangle it with exorbitant rate hikes for licensing films. These studios are seen as greedy, arrogant SOB's, who take the attitude that the world must bend to their will, reality be damned.



And why does this matter? It matters because people feel less guilt about stealing from companies they hate. In such an environment, piracy becomes an arms race between those downloading the content and the studios trying to stop them, with the Internet becoming a victim to the entertainment industry's scorched earth campaign.



What the studios don't seem to understand is that they simply can't win this way. Even if they could shut down the Internet, or lock it down via technology and draconian laws, piracy won't stop. People will just use discs and flash drives to pass content around, and you can be sure that they'll hone their technique into something that's still a major thorn in the industry's side.



The studios don't have a piracy problem because people are dirty pirating thieves, they have a piracy problem because many people see them as greedy, arrogant assholes, and they feel absolutely no guilt about pirating content.