Termination may not be part of the CAS, but that's not the point—the program still uses "protecting copyright" as an excuse to seriously hinder a user's online experience. For example, CAS involves not just "education" but also "Mitigation Measures," such as slowing down Internet speeds to 256 kbps for days—rendering your connection all but unusable in today's era of videochats and Netflix.
Lesser doesn't think that's a problem. As she told the radio show On The Media: "The reduction of speed, which one or more of the ISPs will be using as a mitigation measure, is first of all only 48 hours, which is far from termination."
But that's 48 hours of lower productivity and limited communication across the globe, based on nothing more than a mere allegation of copyright infringement.
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Six-strikes US copyright punishments will harm open WiFi
You may have heard Jill Lesser, Executive Director of the Center for
Copyright Information, explain that America's six-strikes copyright
punishment system would not harm open WiFi. Adi Kamdar explains why Ms
Lesser's totally mistaken:
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