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"Six strikes" copyright enforcement postponed until 2013

The Center for Copyright Information, which will be punishing Internet copyright infringers by administering a "six strikes" warning system, was scheduled to start operations before the end of this year. But today CCI announced that...

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Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Verizon Will Choke The Pipe Of Repeated Infringers Under The Six-Strikes System

It’s a matter of weeks until CCI’s six-strikes system will go into full effect. Besides AT&T (who’s plans have been revealed by a leaked document), there are four other major American ISPs involved, including...

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Friday, November 16th, 2012 Net News No Comments

How ISPs will do “six strikes”: Throttled speeds, blocked sites

flickr / fatboyke The "six strikes" anti-piracy program is on its way, for real. Jill Lesser, head of the Center for Copyright Information—the enforcement agency in charge of the system—confirmed that the system...

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Friday, November 16th, 2012 Net News No Comments

France Cuts Anti-Piracy Agency Funding

The French government is set to cut the funding for its anti-piracy agency, HADOPI, by 23 per cent over the next year, dropping its current 10.3 million euro budget down to eight million ($13...

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Thursday, October 25th, 2012 Net News No Comments

French anti-P2P agency’s funding to fall by 23 percent in 2013

More than a month after a French court convicted its first three-strikes offender under the anti-P2P regime known as Hadopi, the French government will be continuing the controversial program into 2013. And despite a...

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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 Net News No Comments