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slaymaker1907 has it right. Years ago Comcast et al. tried to write a six-strikes policy into law, but instead they got this weird compromise where ISPs had to
by sp332 5y ago
slaymaker1907 has it right. Years ago Comcast et al. tried to write a six-strikes policy into law, but instead they got this weird compromise where ISPs had to each write their own policy which at some point included terminating the customer's account. So either not having such a policy or not implementing it as written will get an ISP in trouble, but there are almost no rules about what has to be in the policy. It's a bad law but at the same time you kinda have to work to screw it up as bad as Cox did.
- a1369209993 5y ago> but instead they got this weird compromise where ISPs had to each write their own policy which at some point included terminating the customer's account. Given how disfunctional the US legal systems is, has anyone tried setting up a local ISP whose actually-enforced policy is to terminate accounts after, say, one billion distinct copyright strikes?