Leaked AT&T files show planned anti-piracy measures

I agree, who are they actually working for, and if it is not the customer?

Sounds to me like they will take the word of a third party that you are an offender without so much as an investigation. A bit like walking past the front door of a house that had been burgled and being arrested for on the assumption you must be guilty because you walked past.

How easy is it to fake an IP address?

How Much Were ATT Paid To Steal User's Time?

So Kid looks at dodgy site and parent sits through half an hour of mind numbing rubbish they have had tp pay to see. A bit like a typical modern film really.

Re: Fast cheap access to justice@AC 18:45

Down voted for being pompous.

Re: Fast cheap access to justice

I realise it may get you a little bit less attention but the reply button should be used when you are replying to a topic.

Also, the courts are there to give people a chance to defend themselves. When you have companies demanding huge amounts of cash for copyright infringement you need a court to keep an eye on things. Or are you under the illusion that the companies in question just want justice?

These same companies that you are saying should be able to get people fined are the same companies that employ lawyers to send letters to try and bully people into paying fines with threats of expensive legal action that they have no intention to take because they know the proof they have may not be as concrete as they like.

Your thoughts have dangerous implications.

Re: Fast cheap access to justice

Like any good NZ partner would say: Baaaaaaaaaaaa

Honestly when are sheeple like you going to realise that piracy is majorly overblown by the media and the RIAA as something that will destroy the fabric of society, OMG Brad Pitt is only going to earn $30mil on the next movie, how will he feed his children..

Pleaseee, Cinema prices (in general maybe not at "your" local cinema) were increasing at a substantial rate well before this "huge" craze to pirate movies, add to that the price of cable/satellite and various other content delivery systems and you will see that any standard household is paying far too much for the rubbish Hollywood produces.

Weinstien and the rest of them are not going hungry any time soon, so whilst you may be a good and correct citizen you certainly won't become a rich one... (the old adage of: Show me a millionaire and I'll show an thief or some other such analogy)..

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The actual statement says it all "suspected piracy."

When was the last time you were imprisoned for suspected murder, or suspected arson, or suspected rape, or suspected shoplifting? What, never? However you CAN be punished for suspected piracy. And as for the courts being jammed, that's only because the music industry has insisted on trying to make a civil offence a criminal offense, and if it IS a criminal offense it should follow the same rules and procedures as any other criminal offense, sorry you can't have a criminal offense of being suspected, it has to be proven in a court of law if the accused denies liability.

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To the photographer:

What makes you think they will enforce YOUR copyright? I suspect this is all about 'Big Content's IP'

Every photograph taken in the USA has an instant copyright - either to the photographer or if its a work for hire to the entity who hired her / him.

Will notices go out to everyone who downloads an image? Downloads might be an infringement, or not depending on the terms offered by the copyright owner.

Im a photographer too. Ive never been asked by 'big content' about my copyright terms.

You see, all copyright owners are equal, its just that some are more equal than others.

In America? Most home users in the US only have once choice for high-speed broadband - their local cable company. In relatively small number of cities, people might have a choice between a "traditional" cable company (Comcast, TWC, Charter, etc) that also offers telecommunications service, and a telecoms company (AT&T, Verizon) that installed fibre-optic runs, and now offers TV service. The telecoms companies have made almost no investment in DSL infrastructure, so DSL just doesn't compete against cable broadband.

When it comes to High-Speed Broadband, for the vast majority of Americans, "competition" is just a theory.