This does not bode well for most American Internet users.
The company that will soon start naming which Americans should have their Internet speeds reduced for piracy just ratted out a website for allegedly pirating HBO's content.
The site? HBO.com.
In a few weeks—the date still isn't official—major U.S. Internet service providers will launch the Copyright Alerts System (CAS). Under the CAS, U.S. citizens who get online with AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon will have their Internet speeds slowed if they're thought to be pirating copyrighted content. The judge of that is an independent company, MarkMonitor, which has developed a program designed to flag users who share copyrighted material on the peer-to-peer filesharing service BitTorrent.
That puts substantial faith in one company. But, as noted by TorrentFreak, MarkMonitor isn't immune to big mistakes when it comes to identifying infringers.
Daily Dot | Copyright monitoring firm flags HBO.com for pirating HBO content
The company that will soon start naming which Americans should have their Internet speeds reduced for piracy just ratted out a website for allegedly pirating HBO's content.
The site? HBO.com.
In a few weeks—the date still isn't official—major U.S. Internet service providers will launch the Copyright Alerts System (CAS). Under the CAS, U.S. citizens who get online with AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon will have their Internet speeds slowed if they're thought to be pirating copyrighted content. The judge of that is an independent company, MarkMonitor, which has developed a program designed to flag users who share copyrighted material on the peer-to-peer filesharing service BitTorrent.
That puts substantial faith in one company. But, as noted by TorrentFreak, MarkMonitor isn't immune to big mistakes when it comes to identifying infringers.
Daily Dot | Copyright monitoring firm flags HBO.com for pirating HBO content