Software That Flagged HBO.com For Piracy Will Power U.S. 'Six Strikes' System

Software That Flagged HBO.com For Piracy Will Power U.S. 'Six Strikes' System 292

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @03:15PM from the raise-your-hand-if-you're-at-all-surprised dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A copyright monitoring program called MarkMonitor mistakenly flagged HBO.com for pirating its own shows, and sent automatic DMCA takedown notices to the network. It's a funny story, until you realize that MarkMonitor is the same software that will power the U.S. Copyright Alerts System (a.k.a. "Six Strikes"), due to be rolled out by the five largest U.S. ISPs sometime in the next month."

Software That Flagged HBO.com For Piracy Will Power U.S. 'Six Strikes' System

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Who cares (Score:5, Funny)

by schneidafunk ( 795759 ) writes: on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @03:21PM (#42800219)

At least our e-voting software is safe.

Re:So, do something (Score:5, Funny)

by drakaan ( 688386 ) writes: on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @03:30PM (#42800349) Homepage Journal

Wait...does this mean that if HBO gets flagged 5 more times they go to jail? Sweet! Self-correcting legislation is awesome!

Nope. Still funny. (Score:4, Funny)

by Jmc23 ( 2353706 ) writes: on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @03:30PM (#42800365) Journal

I'm sure even the USians will enjoy more and more copyright owners getting sued by themselves.

Re:So, do something (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @03:44PM (#42800577)

the people that actually do something are over at reddit. even fucking 4chan beats you whiners.

Re:Which ISPs? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @04:28PM (#42801107)

You know, that one ISP: AT&VeriCastVisionCable

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Who cares (Score:5, Funny)

Re:So, do something (Score:5, Funny)

Nope. Still funny. (Score:4, Funny)

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Re:Which ISPs? (Score:2, Funny)

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