Tackling online piracy through graduated response: the new copyright alert system
August 23, 2011 — 8:35am ET | By Rick Carnes
The always-evolving relationship between ISPs and content owners took another turn toward cooperation and mutual respect in early July. Major ISPs including AT&T (NYSE: T), Cablevision (NYSE: CVC), Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA), Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ), as well as rights groups representing the movie studios and the record labels (MPAA, RIAA, IFTA and A2IM), announced a voluntary agreement to implement a pro-consumer Copyright Alert System to assist in curtailing illegal online piracy.
This new Copyright Alert System establishes a standardized program in which ISPs will forward a series of up to six notices of escalated warning to Internet subscribers whose Internet accounts may have been misused for illegally distributing copyrighted content without authorization of the rightful owner.
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