The US ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Scheme is Dead

[shamu726]

The "six-strikes" Copyright Alert System is no more. In a brief announcement, MPAA, RIAA, and several major US ISPs said that the effort to educate online pirates has stopped. It's unclear why the parties ended their voluntary agreement, but the lack of progress reports in recent years indicates that it wasn't as successful as they had hoped.

 

In 2011, the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with several major U.S. Internet providers, announcing their plan to shift the norms and behavior of BitTorrent pirates.

 

The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information and agreed on a system through which Internet account holders are warned if their connections are used to download pirated content.

 

The program allowed ISPs to take a variety of repressive measures, including bandwidth throttling and temporary Internet disconnections.

 

The “voluntary” agreement was praised by the US Government and seen as an example for other countries, including the UK, where a similar system is about to start. At the same time, however, the Copyright Alert System members have just ended their efforts.

 

“After four years of extensive consumer education and engagement, the Copyright Alert System will conclude its work,” the members of the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) just announced.

 

“The program demonstrated that real progress is possible when content creators, Internet innovators and consumer advocates come together in a collaborative and consensus-driven process.”

 

It’s unclear what progress the members are referring to, as the system mostly excelled at its failure to share information with the public.

 

Since its inception, CCI has issued only a few press releases, and any recent data on the scope and effectiveness of the program is lacking. The only figures that were ever published cover the first ten months, ending December 2013.

 

Last summer we publicly questioned if the Copyright Alert System was doomed, but at the time CCI’s Executive Director Jim Kohlenberger was still hopeful.

 

“Going forward, we continue to look for opportunities to refine the system, and to advance our efforts and to elevate our consumer-focused mission in pragmatic ways,” Kohlenberger said.

 

However, it now appears that the parties couldn’t reach consensus on how to extend or update the existing agreement, to keep going for the years to come. Why they eventually chose to stop the program entirely is not clear from the announcement.

 

In their public-facing statement, copyright holders and ISPs remain positive, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if the mood behind the scenes is grimmer.

 

“We want to thank everyone who put in the hard work to develop this program and make it a success, including past and present members of our Advisory Board. While this particular program is ending, the parties remain committed to voluntary and cooperative efforts to address these issues,” CCI concludes.

 

The decision to end the “six strikes” scheme marks the end of an era. While it means that pirates no longer have to fear temporary Internet disconnections and other mitigation measures that were part of the program, MPAA and RIAA can still send takedown notifications of their own accord.

 

 

Source: TorrentFreak

 

[straycat19]

This wasn't exactly the whole story.  Recent releases include the following that sheds more light and a truer picture (also more believable) reason for its demise.

 

"Steven Fabrizio, executive vice president and global general counsel at the Motion Picture Association of America, suggested that CAS was being withdrawn because of its ineffectiveness at targeting the most egregious offenders.

 

In a statement to Variety, he said that CAS "was simply not set up to deal with the hard-core repeat infringer problem. Ultimately, these persistent infringers must be addressed by ISPs under their 'repeat infringer' policies as provided in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."

 

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[steven36]

it was not legal to began witth, many courts have deemed a ip is not a person  and people who signed up too a isp before this took place did not agree too this and it was just volunteer  and there are 25 pages of providers  here

http://broadbandnow.com/All-Providers

And only like 6 done it before the rest didn't do it at all,  TPP  is out the window  and the MPPA and RiAA do not have the funding  too keep Funding these useless programs the Government keeps cutting there money every year and they have to downsize and lay people off  so the bigwigs can keep there multi million dollar pay checks .

 

It dont matter what business it is  cuts  always hurts the middle class and poor ..Always  the Bigwigs keep there million dollar pay checks and they brag about how many jobs hollyweird  creates when its just one city in the USA and dont help much is reality  . There a bunch of self centered ego manics . One day a another depression will take place and there money will be worthless.

 

If they want slow piracy down in the USA  , All they have too do is make all those businesses overseas comeback too the USA  and they want have no choice but too hire people in the USA or go bankrupt  then the middle class and the poor will have money too spend on  things you can live without like entertainment. A good economy is the best medicine because  all ready the jails are full of non violent offenders some  that didn't really do nothing but owe debt ..It just costs the tax payer money  too feed and board  these people so it just ends costing more money to a nation that's $20.1 trillion, in debut , really the USA is broke .. They put so and so in jail because they owe so much  why dont they put themselves in jail ?

 

And all MPPA and RiAA is a money racket  they sue people were they will never see the money and the taxpayer has to end up paying the bill ..And they dont want piracy too end  because if it did  they would have no job and they depend  on things like a bad economy to keep them in  business , this is when the most piracy takes place is when people have too chose between food and a place to live  or  entertainment. Ask anyone  from a 3rd world country about this and if something dont change soon about the rich keeps getting richer and poor gets poorer this is were the USA is headed.