Hollywood’s Total Piracy Awareness Program Set for January Launch
Found on Wired on Friday, 07 December 2012
Beginning in a few weeks, the nation’s major internet service providers will roll out an initiative — backed by Obama and pushed by Hollywood and the record labels – to disrupt and possibly terminate internet access for online copyright scofflaws without the involvement of cops or courts.
“It doesn’t mean you give up on litigation,” said Chris Dodd, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, speaking at an industry gathering here Thursday. “It doesn’t mean you give up on legislation.”
So the entertainment industry can simply terminate Internet access for anybody; given their history of failures I'm sure there won't be any other mistakes, like, for example, dead grannies or people without a computer. Additionally, recent research papers show that piracy actually helps the entertainment industry, but of course they disagree with that which makes you wonder who is lying here. Of course it wouldn't be someone like Dodd, who ruled out lobbying but then happily joined the MPAA after quitting his senator job and later threatened other politicians who decided not to be a Hollywood sockpuppet.