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   anony, Jul 1st, 2008 @ 4:10pm

   
   

   Cox is doing it

   Don't know if there is a list of ISPs that are doing it already, but from personal experience I know that Cox Cable has implemented and is enforcing its "three strike" rule.

    

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   Vincent Clement, Jul 1st, 2008 @ 5:55pm

   
   

   Re: Cox is doing it

   It's one thing for a company to enforce it's own rules. It's another thing when the government makes it the law.

    

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   LTDLP, Jul 1st, 2008 @ 6:14pm

   
   

   Thumbs Up

   Yes, that is a very sane proposal. Cory hits the bulleye.
   I'm guessing that the three strikes proponents are not up to the challenge however. If held to their own "rules" you would not hear the end of the wailing, screaming and whining about how unfair it all is.
   btw, how many ISPs are owned by these whiners ?

    

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   Not Bob, Jul 1st, 2008 @ 6:30pm

   
   

   Not likely

   Sorry Mike,
   It seems you have forgotten that when a company/industry/government/person/{insert group here} gets to a certain size, it figures that all the rules are for others and they have no need to follow them themselves.
   
   Sort of like the "argument" that, "This isn't about us, it's about those thieving pirates."

    

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   mike allen, Jul 1st, 2008 @ 10:50pm

   
   

   I dont think it will work

   The three strikes rule first it will just piss off ISP customers. 2nd no one has given me the answear to one simple question that of Can they tell the differance between say BBC Iplayer and say Kazaa or other P2P download? i dont think they can. They all use bit torrants and i guess the BBC have copyrights on their shows. so i belive this to be another backfire for the record industry.

    

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   anony, Jul 1st, 2008 @ 11:17pm

   
   

   Re: Re: Cox is doing it

   The company in question is under legal pressure from other companies. Cox itself does not monitor its users and does not require proof of copyright infringement for a "strike" to count.

    

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   James Gardiner, Jul 2nd, 2008 @ 3:31am

   
   

   Force it underground..

   Either way, P2P networks are going fully encrypted, so they cannot really tell what your shareing.
   
   And even if they did enforce this big time, it will simply force it underground. Wireless networks, etc, will pop up and users will simply start talking to each other without ISPs getting in the way.
   
   There is always a way around it. Up until the internet, I still knew a number of people who had a steady stream of pirate content. Not sure how they got it.. But, it is always going to happen.
   
   James

    

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   Shohat, Jul 2nd, 2008 @ 3:58am

   
   

   Ahem

   So basically Cory is saying that a person that likes getting blowjobs, should also give blowjobs.
   
   This isn't Sparta.
   
   Did you just grab my ass ?

    

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   JustMe, Jul 2nd, 2008 @ 5:39am

   
   

   Re: Shohat

   No, what they are saying is that if you make baby food, for example, you should be willing to occasionally taste the baby food yourself. If you have lax controls and think that things (heavy metals, rat feces, etc.) might have fallen in to the food and don't want to eat it yourself then perhaps you shouldn't sell it to babies.

    

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    zealeus, Jul 2nd, 2008 @ 7:20am

    
    

    Charter

    Charter communications already does the 3-strikes rule, too. I've been in areas that use charter for the last 5 years, and I've only known one person in all that time to get a notice, so chances of getting 3 strikes isn't all that great.

     

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    Bad Analogy Guy, Jul 2nd, 2008 @ 5:01pm

    
    

    Re: Re: Shohat

    JustMe -> "what they are saying is that if you make baby food"
    
    Ahhh, and I thought my analogies were bad .....
    wow
    So ... the RIAA is mommy feeding the babies surfing the net some baby food and the RIAA should have to eat some too.
    
    I think the RIAA are the babies whining to mommy political court system for the big titty.
    
    Sheesh

     

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    oregonnerd, Jul 4th, 2008 @ 10:47am

    
    

    three strikes

    No. If the analogy were to be fair...the RIAA would find out it had already violated the three-strikes rule and was headed to prison.
    
    ...Maybe we should just all go to prison and get training on laying cable, like the brits did...
    --Glenn
    8]

     

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    Dean Landolt, Jul 6th, 2008 @ 4:19pm

    
    

    RE: Shohat

    Interesting analogy Shohat -- I'll certainly have to borrow that...
    
    I agree that the relationship between the two isn't commutative. But frankly, I don't believe we'd need go to such extends as Doctorow proposes to demonstrate the absurdity of three-strikes: given strict enforcement and many eyes on them, it's unlikely many entertainment firms could go very long without being caught with their hand in the copyright cookie jar, violating someone's copyright one way or another.

     

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