[LINK] story about media piracy approaches

[Jan Whitaker]

Towards a kinder, gentler "three strikes" for file-sharers (3 February 2010)
  http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/dropping-car-analogies-and-finding-common-ground-on-copyright.ars
  http://snipurl.com/u9b9c

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Keep it secret

The focus on US policy was odd because legislative solutions to the 
issue aren't being proposed. ISPs can currently disconnect users on a 
voluntary basis, but none do so on a massive scale. That doesn't mean 
the issue isn't a live one, though, just that copyright holders are 
trying to break into the ISP automobile through the rear window 
instead of the front door.

Discussions on Internet disconnections are certainly taking place 
behind a cloak of near-total secrecy with the Anti-Counterfeiting 
Trade Agreement. ACTA is billed as an executive agreement, not a 
trade treaty, and as such will not need Congressional approval.

The RIAA and MPAA are moving outside the legislative system by going 
to the FCC as well, using the current net neutrality proceeding to 
ask that the FCC not just explicitly allow but actively "encourage" 
ISPs to start cooperating.

Given that the RIAA appears to have failed in its 14-month bid to 
sign up ISPs to its proposed "graduated response" program (none have 
publicly signed on), the industry has certainly not abandoned the 
idea. It wants government help, just not the kind that relies on 
legislative branch action where the noisy public might insert itself 
with more vehemence.
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