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[ NNSquad ] Announcing "USA Six Strikes ISP Watch"
Announcing "USA Six Strikes ISP Watch"
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001012.html
United States ISPs have now apparently launched their much ballyhooed
"Six Strikes" copyright "education/punishment" program.
This is a singular event in the history of the Internet. I know not
of any close parallels to this situation in contemporary history,
where primary communications carriers will be acting in an
extrajudicial (that is, without court actions) context to divert,
throttle, block, or otherwise tamper with personal communication
channels, at the bequest of private third parties.
Because these actions are taking place outside the specific realm of
any existing regulatory regime, it is important to understand exactly
how ISPs deploy, manage, and presumably escalate this program over
time.
So today I'm announcing the "USA Six Strikes ISP Watch" to gather
information about "six strikes" activities here in the United States.
If you receive such a "six strikes" notification while online or in
any other manner, I would appreciate your forwarding to:
ispwatch@vortex.com
as much of the following information as you feel comfortable providing
(this data will only be used for aggregate analysis/reporting):
- A screenshot of any Web-based strike notice and/or a copy of any
associated email (the latter with full headers if possible)
- If it's not obvious from the screenshot or email, what strike number
is this for you?
- A statement as to whether or not you feel that the strike (or any
previous strikes) is/are in error
- What do you plan to do about the strike? (Nothing? Appeal?
Something else?)
- What impact, if any, has the strike had on your Internet
connectivity? (Browser diversions? Rate throttling? Connectivity
blocks to some or all sites? Impacts on non-Web traffic such as
VoIP services or anything else?)
- Any other thoughts or comments that you'd like to add
Again, I will only use or report this data in the aggregate. Any
examples published will be redacted and anonymized.
Thank you very much!
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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