Tell ISPs: No Punitive "Six Strikes" Plan -- Or We'll Take Our Business Elsewhere

[† cloud1414]

Here it comes: After months of secret negotiations with the players who pushed SOPA, the major Internet Service Providers on the verge of implementing their "Six Strikes" plan to fight "online infringement".

With essentially no due process, AT&T, Cablevision Systems, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon will get on your case if you're accused of violating intellectual property rights -- and eventually even interfere with your ability to access the Internet. (You can contest accusations -- if you fork over $35.)

Click here to tell the ISPs to back down -- or that you'll look to take your business elsewhere.

According to Wired, "The internet companies may eliminate service altogether for repeat file-sharing offenders, although the plan does not directly call for such drastic action."

After the first few supposed violations, they'll alert you that your connection was engaging in behavior that they -- the giant corporations that provide your Internet service -- deem inappropriate.

And then it gets really dicey: They can make it difficult for you to access the web, or start throttling down your connection.

Click here to tell the ISPs to back down -- and put them on notice.

More from Wired:

After four alerts, according to the program, “mitigation measures” may commence. They include “temporary reductions of Internet speeds, redirection to a landing page until the subscriber contacts the ISP to discuss the matter or reviews and responds to some educational information about copyright, or other measures (as specified in published policies) that the ISP may deem necessary to help resolve the matter.”

That's right: These mega-corporations now claim the authority to undermine your Internet access -- and want to serve as judge, jury, and executioner. Tell them to back off -- or that you'll start looking for other places to bring your business.

Just click here to tell the ISPs to back down.

This plan is set to take effect later this year. Please enlist your friends before it's too late:

[† ballard]

I have Time Warner >.<... Google needs to hurry and bring their awesome internet to California. I'm switching to them instantly.

Going along the lines of this article. What exactly do they deem "inappropriate." I buy a lot of games off of steam, which downloading all of them takes up a lot of bandwidth. Would they throttle me, or terminate my internet use despite steam being perfectly legal? These big corporations are really shady.

Edited October 11, 2012 by ballard

[Digatu]

You'll be fine with steam.

[† cloud1414]

Im guessing they mean torrents. But for me, since im on light internet with TW my DL and UL is capped at 120kb/s. So I dont think I would have a problem since I wont be downloading around 20+ gb a day like other people do through torrents.