Since the birth of Napster in the late 1990's in been a issue to stem the illegal downloads surfacing online. However many attempts to do so, a new one has been invented - it involves the MPAA and RIAA who plan to monitor peer to peer file sharing sites and catch people uploading/downloading TV shows, movies or music. Then when caught they will make note of your IP address and then send it to the users internet provider.The ISPs — AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner, and Cable-vision all have agreed to then send the user 6 warnings each of a different scale the six warnings are:
1) Firstly its a simple warning.
2) Next comes the acknowledgement phase, whereby the user must confirm that they have seen this warning.
3) The Mitigation phase - this is the final stage whereby the internet provider will either block the user from using the internet or throttle their internet speed almost to an unbearable rate. Although non will terminate your account as they still want the money.
However it has its critics, for example privacy advocates argue and are most worried about the miss identification of the illegal user. Other argue that such places as internet cafe's etc could be affected although they say that these will not be targeted.
I feel that this idea will not work although it has the ability too until we get to stage 6 of the warning system the Mitigation phase this is because its all about profit they will not actually terminate a user because they will loose out on too much money. However with the other stages is has the ability too scare people into not downloading etc and the fact its being done in such as easy way also.
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