The largest US providers put into the work plan to combat the "pirates" on the Web

In July 2011, a coalition comprising the largest US providers, AT & T, Verizon, Comcast, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable, signed an agreement to combat the “pirates” on the Web. The provisions of the agreement include several steps - from warning to punishing the most malicious "pirates." The punishment plan contains only six steps for each specific “pirate”.

So, providers pledge to monitor copyright infringers, and send them messages about the inadmissibility of such actions. A total of six warnings are provided (after all, providers are not inclined to lose customers, right?) And then, as far as one can understand, malicious violators will still be punished according to the law. According to representatives of these organizations, the majority of violations related to copyright, occur due to misunderstandings, so the offender must not be punished, but warned, telling him about the "letter of the law" regarding copyright.
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The plan, adopted in July last year, has not been implemented until now. He always postponed, and postponed, and postponed. But now, apparently, providers will still begin to implement the plan, which was mentioned here. Over the next few weeks, providers will take action, several resources warn about this at once, including TorrentFreak. Representatives of this resource managed to get a document showing that AT & T, for example, will work according to the plan from November 28.



It is worth noting that providers will report IP violators to such well-known organizations as the MRAA and the RIAA. These organizations, in turn, will apply to the court with a request to allow the receipt of personal data of violators from the provider. Well, the data obtained will already be used in further trials.

At the same time, providers can independently take certain measures that will allow the “pirate” to be warned about the unlawfulness of a copyright violation. So, providers, besides sending the mentioned messages, have the right to cut the speed to the violator, or redirect this client to a page with a description of the letter of the copyright law.

According to representatives of the coalition, the main task in relation to the "pirates" now is a warning, not punishment. Well, if no warnings help, then punishment will follow. Here is such a perspective.

Via mashable