In November 2012, Internet providers such as AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Cablevision, and a few others will start up their six strikes anti-piracy program. The program is meant to educate Net users about online piracy, and prevents them from downloading materials that may infringe copyright, including the monitoring of peer-to-peer communications.
July 12th was the said date for the program, not sure if this was related to the program, or perhaps rescheduled.
This is made possible thanks to an agreement between the ISPs and the entertainment industry (Hollywood) such as the MPAA and the RIAA, and their associates.
As it stands, the mitigation measures will be used on your sixth strike and beyond, such as the temporary block of Internet traffic, and throttling down of Net speed, that is, after you’ve been warned by your ISP many times.
Source: TorrentFreak
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