http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397 ... topStories
If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider (ISP) has been watching, and they’re coming for you.
Specifically, they’re coming for you on Thursday, July 12.
That’s the date when the nation’s largest ISPs will all voluntarily implement a new anti-piracy plan that will engage network operators in the largest digital spying scheme in history, and see some users’ bandwidth completely cut off until they sign an agreement saying they will not download copyrighted materials.
American ISPs to launch massive copyright spying scheme on July 12 Word of the start date has been largely kept secret since ISPs announced their plans last June. The deal was brokered by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and coordinated by the Obama Administration. The same groups have weighed in heavily on controversial Internet policies around the world, with similar facilitation by the Obama’s Administration’s State Department.
The July 12 date was revealed by the RIAA’s CEO and top lobbyist, Cary Sherman, during a publishers’ conference on Wednesday in New York, according to technology publication CNet.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/a ... n-july-12/
We'll see if this actually happens. Though, I'm surprised I'm not seeing 1/100th the outcry from people online as we did with SOPA(which never happened)
Hopefully this will also wake up more youth to Obama being bad news, regardless of what gay rights Biden pledges or what student forgiveness act they claim they'll pass
