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Re:Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbyin... by jrockway on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @01:16AM (#4686760)
Your ISP and the company that owns the wires to your house need not be the same. And I doubt the company that provides your copper backhaul is going to be involved in any "six strikes" laws.

Incidentally, I hope the ISPs that own everything lose their common-carrier status when they start disconnecting people over copyright claims. Look at the rage that copyright enforcement has when audio is stripped from YouTube videos. I don't think people are going to be happy when their net connection is cut off.

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Re:Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbyin... by pdonis on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @01:54AM (#4686825)
> Your ISP and the company that owns the wires to your house need not be the same.

s/need not/are/

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Re:Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbyin... by jrockway on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @03:40PM (#4689996)
That's the default, but the telco will happily sell you a non-Internet wire that you can connect to the Internet yourself. (Or rather, pay some other company to do. Speakeasy used to work this way: they were the ISP and the telco owned the copper.)
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Re:Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbyin... by pdonis on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @07:36PM (#4690913)
I guess I should have qualified my statement: yes, technically it doesn't apply if you can live with dialup or DSL. Of course, if that's the case you don't use the Internet for very much anyway.

(I see from the website of Megapath, which is what Speakeasy seems to have morphed into, that they do actually provide broadband, but it looks like "small business" broadband--i.e., priced too high for a home user. Their offerings at home user prices are basically DSL.)

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