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The US 'Six Strikes' Anti-Piracy Scheme is Dead
In 2011, the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with several major U.S. Internet providers, announcing their plan to shift the norms and behavior of BitTorrent pirates. The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information and agreed on a system through which Internet account holders are warned if their connections are used to download pirated content. The program allowed ISPs to take a variety of repressive measures, including bandwidth throttling and temporary Internet disconnections.
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Why would the ISP's agree to continue anyway considering that the newest anti-piracy idea is suing the ISP for infringrement and they fricking won against Cox and it's on appeal.
The larger problem are not torrent sites, but streaming sites because these are where the largest advertising money is made. No point going after the user who downloads the movies, go after the sites that make money for hosting the files and those who pay them, the advertisers (mostly software download sites, betting sites, dating sites, get-rich-quick schemes and the likes). Without ads, those sites make no money and without money, they can't afford servers, bandwidth,... so they would end up closing down their sites.