Copyright Alert System gets started, ISPs ready to lay the smack down on P2P piracy (update)
It would be interesting to see how this turns out. For one, its going to be one hell of a blame game. Think about all the unsecured and public internet access across America. Who are ISP’s going to blame in this day of free ubiquitous w…
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- February 27, 2013
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From the archive: Originally shared on 2013-02-27 through mrfiifiappiah. Language, links, and opinions reflect their original context.
It would be interesting to see how this turns out.
For one, its going to be one hell of a blame game. Think about all the unsecured and public internet access across America. Who are ISP’s going to blame in this day of free ubiquitous wifi access.
I see great selling points for internet security companies who will sell software upon software that will promise to be the solutions for poor businesses and organizations that provide free internet services as part of their business model.
The “dark side” of the internet evolves remarkably fast, think of how “illegal“ downloading has evolved over the years. Thus this is only a short term fix, which might actually deter a lot of people from downloading at home.
From both technical and legal view points, this is going to be a challenge for ISP’s but its a start. Yes a start. The way I see it, its going to be a win win situation. Economically, media companies will have to do something, there is no way around it. They will bribe (“lobby”) the entire capitol if they have to. But our beacon of hope is dissidence and the fact that they will be competing with a competitor whose price tag for the same product is zero. They can’t set a price lower than “download here for free” They will be forced to find ways to provide content for free, but then they will manage to dangle something else in front of us via commercials that will have us shouting “take our money already” and take our money all the same.
My hope is that more creative and innovative alternatives like spotify, pandora, hulu, crackle and roku to mention a few, will arise from all this copyright cacophony.