American ISPs to launch massive copyright spying scheme on July 12

[Justice wanted]

If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider (ISP) has been watching, and they’re coming for you.

Specifically, they’re coming for you on Thursday, July 12.

That’s the date when the nation’s largest ISPs will all voluntarily implement a new anti-piracy plan that will engage network operators in the largest digital spying scheme in history, and see some users’ bandwidth completely cut off until they sign an agreement saying they will not download copyrighted materials.

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Basically the heart of PIPA and SOPA are going to be enacted by your internet provider AND not congress.

I think I am going to stay offline as a way of protesting this that day.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Soon, you'll have to sign an oath not to stuff tennis balls down your toilet before buying them.

Or, guarantee that you won't use the duct tape you're buying to repair tennis shoes worn by crocodiles.

[freshwest]

2. Fine. They tell me not to download what they've made freely available on youtube, I won't.

But until then, I'm gonna download every silly animal video I can. And anything else that has been uploaded and shared.

If the content is copyrighted, or for some reason the original creator doesn't want it shared except for online viewing or pay per view, it's not there, it's cut off at the source.

I've never gone to the sites like Pirate Bay, etc. Just grabbed whatever everyone else is. Like this:

And stuff like this, with Enya and a movie clip:

I don't consider myself to be stealing anything when it's being put out there like this. Do you?