All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012

[tahirire]

Originally posted by force_oblique at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012
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Comments

[windscryer]

It's actually July 1st, not the 12th. Just FYI.

And supposedly it will be based on size not source. IDK if that's true, but it wouldn't surprise me.

[tahirire]

Oh, is it written down wrong? I just hit the reblog button lol.

I heard that too, about size. Which makes it worse, because I constantly have to DL large size things for school. *sigh*

[windscryer]

Yeah, I only found out about the date change like a week ago. I have my suspicions of dastardly sneakiness based on the fact that EVERYONE had the wrong date and there were all kinds of exaggerated OOPSIE! faces all over.

I'm annoyed by the size thing because there are so MANY legal downloads that are huge. That kind of criteria makes no sense whatsoever.

[feliciakw]

This has the potential to be a huge, messy trainwreck for the artistic community. What do they mean by "download copyrighted material"? If I'm collaborating on an original work, and my partner e-mails me a large file of text or video or jpg or something--all of which is original and not yet submitted for copyright--how will the ISP know? How can they tell, simply by the file size, whether or not I'm infringing on a copyright?

Then there's the issue of fair usage. If you're using something only in part and for educational purposes, that usually falls under fair usage. (I forget the exact verbiage.) How are they gonna know, except guilty of piracy until proven innocent by proving fair usage. Yeah, that's gonna go over real well in academia.

Ugh.

[tahirire]

Or, for instance, last night the Detla Rae website was giving away free downloads of their entire live album. So, for all they know, I just downloaded a bunch of music, how do they know it was free and I got it from the artist?

I'm going to call my ISP today and ask them how they will know these things and threaten to cut off my service if they can't give me decent answers.

[alwaysenduphere]

Tags: is it dark angel yet?

accurate.

[tahirire]

Yep.