07.08.11
This will work
Internet Service Providers to attack the little people through a campaign of annoyance, stupidly conveyed via news short from Rolling Stone:
Americans who illegally download music, movies and games may soon find their internet access grinding to a halt. The nation’s top internet providers – including Verizon, Time Warner Cable, AT&T, Cablevision and Comcast – have agreed to a new system in which users suspected of digital copyright infringement will be given a series of six warnings by email or other means. Repeat offenders would be threatened with progressively severe punishments, culminating in reduced connection speed or having service cut off entirely. Customers will be allowed to contest each warning.
The internet carriers hope to deter piracy through annoyance …
Of course, no one will be punished for downloading pirated material from a Google property … like YouTube, one assumes. Lest the entire business model collapse.
Country music artist Colt Ford’s new album, pirated in entirety to the YouTube cloud.
The entire debut by JaneDear Girls, pirated to YouTube. Up for months now.
All of Donovan’s hit singles from the Sixties, pirated to YouTube. Last I heard, they weren’t public domain.
DD could go on. And on. And on.
The only working rule in effect here is if the group or individual is a current big seller, their legal fixers and YouTube will work to keep their albums from being uploaded. So that the videos can be monetized through Vevo.
What would happen if ISP’s blocked YouTube, for the annoyance of users into stopping their downloading/streaming of pirated content?
Rhetorical, of course.