US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Will Roll Out Gradually

Somewhere in the near future the Center for Copyright Information ( CCI ) will start to track down online ‘pirates’ as part of an agreement all major US Internet providers struck with the MPAA and RIAA. The parties agreed on a system through which copyright infringers are warned that their behavior is unacceptable. After five or six warnings ISPs may then take a variety of repressive measures, including temporary disconnections. When the deal was first announced in July last year the first ISPs were expected to send out the initial warnings before the end of 2011. But this deadline passed silently, as did the July 2012 date subsequently mentioned in the press. TorrentFreak contacted CCI for an update, and the group ensured us that they’re working hard to get things up and running as soon as possible. “With regards to timing, CCI is rigorously working towards implementing the Copyright Alert System in a way that is consistent with the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and with the needs of subscribers,” a spokesperson told us

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