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Obama And ISP’s To Launch Largest Digital Spying Scheme In History (Must Read)

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 July 1st.

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.

Word of the start date has been largely kept secret since ISPs announced their plans last June. The deal was brokered by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and coordinated by the Obama Administration. The same groups have weighed in heavily on controversial Internet policies around the world, with similar facilitation by the Obama’s Administration’s State Department.

The July 1 date was revealed by the RIAA’s CEO and top lobbyist, Cary Sherman, during a publishers’ conference on Wednesday in New York, according to technology publication CNet.

The content industries calls this scheme a “graduated response” plan, which will see Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and others spying on users’ Internet activities and watching for potential copyright infringement. Users who are “caught” infringing on a creator’s protected work can then be interrupted with a notice that piracy is forbidden by law and carries penalties of up to $150,000 per infringement, requiring the user to click through saying they understand the consequences before bandwidth is restored, and they could still be subject to copyright infringement lawsuits.

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harrypotterconfessions:

On January 18th many websites including Tumblr are going black for one of the largest Internet protest in Internet history. Thousands of sites taking part in the protest and will be directing people to contact Congress to kill SOPA and PIPA.

On Januray 24th the Senate is going to vote on PIPA which is the Senates version of SOPA. And here is a little clip from an email I got today.

In just 7 days, the Senate will vote on forever altering the free and open internet by instituting a new regime of extra-judicial, corporate-led website takedowns. This is a fundamental fight about who has power in society — the people with the means to communicate freely or the governments and corporations that feel threatened.

{ For some stats on the Bills go here. }

Pretty much, if these bills are passed it could not only effect the U.S., but other countries around the world.

For more information check out these sites.

• Tumblr’s Page
• American Censorship
• Mozilla’s SOPA site 
• Stop the E-PARASITE Act
• Stop the internet control bill Petition
• AVAAZ - Save the Internet
• SOPA Strike
• SOPA Blackout
• American Censorship Petition

So, please do you part even if you aren’t in the U.S.