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Fuck 'em.
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I will be ignoring this. If I'm ever effected by it, I'll cancel my service and go to an independent ISP not on this list.

It's nice to see the big ISPs helping out the smaller companies by driving off some of their customers like this. So kind of them.
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I honestly think this is one of the most blatant "Big Brother" moves I've ever seen.

Chalk this up with red light cameras.

I really, really wish the sheep in this country would wake up so generations from now kids aren't reading about us in history books thinking, "What a bunch of selfish, mindless drones."
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After a bunch of publicized false positives, the alert threshold will be cranked so low that it wont matter any more. Eventually someone at the ISPs will get fired for spending millions in development for a program that the music/movie industry wanted that can't work.



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Fortunately, the gov't and regulatory folk have always been behind the private sector in terms of technical competency.
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Every bit of data in the country gets copied and stored in the NSA's spy building in Utah anyway, so it isn't like they need to reinvent the wheel. If they want to collect and see your data, well hell, they already have it.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

You can pretend that due process exists to keep the government from overstepping privacy bounds, but not only has the TSA wiped its ass with the 4th amendment, the white house can just fucking kill you without a judge even being told about it.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news....1259993

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According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US.

Password1?
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