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"Six strikes" Internet warning system will come to US this year

The Center for Copyright Information, a private partnership of "content creators" in the U.S. film and music industries and internet service providers, will launch a warning system by the end of 2012 designed to alert Web users when they have committed alleged copyright infringement.

The "six strikes" system will give internet pirates six warnings, where they will likely choose for a system where warning levels are increased and, potentially, download speeds of copyright infringing users are gradually decreased based on the warning level.

"We are still very much intending to launch this year, but in no way was missing a July deadline a missed deadline," the CCI's head, Jill Lesser said in a recent interview. "This isn't the American version of the French system, and it isn’t a baseball game."

"At that point, all of the tools that the content owners and the ISPs have at their disposal are there," she said. "ISPs can, and have, taken action based on that. Content owners we know have taken action against large- scale pirates."

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