Seems to be smoke and mirrors to me, something that's not going to hold up to the first legal challenge when they try to throttle some grandma's internet service.
Though maybe it's just meant to be a cash cow, to try to recover some of the money they claim they are losing:
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Also, the fact that users are charged a $35 fee to appeal means that users are being charged just to engage in the process. Even though a parking ticket usually costs more than that, there isn’t typically a fee to content in court that you should never have received it in the first place.
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http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/...t-alert-system
I hope they are prepared to provide employment lists of all the people that the recording and film industry will supposedly be hiring when they stop losing all that income to those nasty pirates.
