Business Software Alliance wants in on three-strikes action

The Business Software Alliance exists to fight software piracy, and the group has thrown its weight behind the “graduated response” method of dealing with online copyright infringement. But, in a sign that Big Content has heard the public’s complaints about lack of due process and disproportionate penalties , the BSA goes out of its way to talk up the need for an appeals process and judicial oversight before any Internet disconnections could occur. Graduated response deals with suspected copyright infringement on the Internet by involving ISPs, who implement a set of ever more restrictive sanctions on users accused of sharing movies, music, or software online.

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