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Ganging Up on Internet Pirates: Hollywood, Telecom Providers Unite to Target Those Who Share Copyrighted Films, Music

by on July 8, 2011

From WSJ Online. Horrible.

BY ETHAN SMITH AND GEOFFREY A. FOWLER

Internet users who share pirated movies and music online may soon be getting an unpleasant surprise: Warnings from their cable and phone providers that detail alleged copyright infringement and threaten to slow their Web connections if they don’t stop.

The new so-called Copyright Alert System was created by a coalition of major film studios, record labels and Internet-service providers, who agreed to guidelines for identifying and notifying Web users who violate copyrights.

Among the ISPs that have pledged to implement the new policy are Comcast Corp., AT&T Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc.

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