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Do you download movies, music, games or more? Are they something that would normally be for sale in a store or on a website that you feel you don’t want to or shouldn’t have to pay for? Be warned, SOPA has been shelved however some ISPs are planning on taking matters into their own hands.

Remember the Wikipedia blackout? It was in protest of SOPA.

But the entire time, Internet service providers, at the behest of trade groups representing the entertainment industry, have been preparing to police such illegal sharing voluntarily and, potentially, shut down sites they think aren’t playing by the rules.

Those actions could have the same effect that SOPA would have.

According to a leading recording industry spokesman, service providers such as Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Cablevision and Time Warner Cable are expected to begin enforcing ramped-up anti-piracy policies in the next few months.

(Time Warner, CNN’s parent company, supported the legislation. Time Warner Cable is no longer affiliated with the company.)

“Each ISP has to develop their infrastructure for automating the system,” Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, said this week at a publishers conference in New York. “Every ISP has to do it differently, depending on the architecture of its particular network. Some are nearing completion, and others are a little further from completion.”

The Copyright Alert System, which the recording industry’s trade group first announced in July, has alternately been called a “gradual elevation” approach or the “six strikes” plan because of the warnings that providers would give before curbing a user’s Internet access. Unlike SOPA, it targets individual Web users, not websites.

After five or six alerts that their account appears to have been used to download content illegally, the ISP could take measures including temporarily throttling (i.e. dramatically slowing down) Internet speed, redirecting users to a Web page asking them to contact their provider or other measures.

“Supporters said they expect most Web users will stop downloading copyrighted material once they realize it’s not legal.” Hahahaha keep expecting as its not likely to happen, chances are the people who are downloading these files daily are fully aware now that it is illegal. With an abundance of ISP’s to choose from in most metro areas if person gets shut down they will just switch over to a different provider or better yet switch over to a mobile broadband service (while the speeds would be slower, they would still most certainly use it for their download needs).

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Opponents of a bill designed to protect the rights of film companies and music labels say it could be perverted to censor the Internet in the United States.

Hearings in the House of Representatives on the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) began Wednesday, sparking a campaign by dozens of companies to keep the bill from becoming law.

“We support the bill’s stated goals,” says an open letter signed by nine Internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, AOL and eBay.

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“Internet enemies” and countries under surveillance lists

In 2006, Reporters without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF), a Paris-based international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press, started publishing a list of “Enemies of the Internet”.^[15] The organization classifies a country as an enemy of the internet because “all of these countries mark themselves out not just for their capacity to censor news and information online but also for their almost systematic repression of Internet users.”^[16] In 2007 a second list of countries “Under Surveillance” (originally “Under Watch”) was added. Both lists are updated annually.^[17]

When the “Enemies of the Internet” list was introduced in 2006, it listed 13 countries. By 2011 the number of countries listed had fallen to 10 with the move of Belarus, Egypt, and Tunisia to the “Countries under surveillance.” Belarus was moved to surveillance status in 2009 and Egypt and Tunisia were moved after their revolutions in 2011. No new countries have been added to the list since it was established.

When the “Countries under surveillance” list was introduced in 2008, it listed 10 countries. By 2011 the number of countries listed had grown to 16 after Jordan in 2009, Tajikistan in 2009, and Yemen in 2010 were dropped from the list; Australia in 2009, France in 2011, Russia in 2010, South Korea in 2009, Turkey in 2010, and Venezuela in 2011 were added; and with the three moves from the “Enemies of the Internet” list noted earlier. Bahrain, Eritrea, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka dropped from the list in 2010, but were added again in 2011. Libya dropped from the list in 2009, but was added again in 2011.

sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship