ISPs To Cut Service For Piracy

In order to combat our culture of piracy—admit it, illegal downloading is just as routine as brushing your teeth—ISPs, Hollywood, and the record industry have finally agreed on a six-point deterrent system for piracy.

After the failure and embarrassment of lawsuits, the strategy is now “educational.” The first few piracy offenses will garner e-mail warning notices, which web users will be forced to acknowledge. By Level five, connection speeds reduce. And at Level six, there’s a block on Web browsing.

AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable have all agreed to enforce the new rules, hoping to lessen the estimated $16 billion lost to piracy annually by music and movie companies.

[via New York Times]