"Six strikes" system goes live this fall, appeals to cost $35

Found on Ars Technica on Thursday, 18 October 2012
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Lesser said that over the next two months, the five major ISPs funding the CAS—AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon—would ”begin rolling out" their versions of the alert system. Under the CAS, ISPs would pass infringement notices from copyright holders on to their subscribers.

Finally, Lesser explained to Ars that consumers will have to pay $35 to the CAS to initiate a review procedure, which will be refunded if the consumer wins the review.

"This is the first time that there is a multi-stakeholder effort that tries to address these issues in a consumer-friendly way. If we are successful and we see a reduction in piracy and an increase in legal services, there may be a phase two. We need to take this first step and evaluate it."

If the entertainment industry would be consumer friendly, it would not lobby and bribe to create such a system. Instead, it would realize that piracy is not a problem: it's replacing an old and dying business model.