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\nVerizon is terminating internet service to an unknown number of repeat copyright scofflaws, a year after suggesting it was not adopting a so-called graduated-response policy.<\/p>\n
While it was not immediately clear whether other internet service providers were following suit, the move comes as the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America are lobbying ISPs and Congress to support terminating internet access for repeat, online copyright offenders.<\/p>\n
All the while, the United States has been privately lobbying the European Union to \u201cencourage\u201d so-called three strikes policies, according to leaked documents surrounding a proposed international intellectual property accord.<\/p>\n
Verizon was not immediately prepared to comment in detail on the developments, first reported by CNET, or to detail how many of its more than 8 million broadband subscribers it has terminated \u2014 although CNET said the number was \u201csmall.\u201d The RIAA declined comment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe reserve the right to do that,\u201d Verizon spokeswoman Bobbi Henson said in a telephone interview regarding the terminations.<\/p>\n
The RIAA announced a year ago it was ending its litigation campaign against individual file sharers, about 30,000 lawsuits in all. Instead, the music industry\u2019s lobbying and litigation arm said it would rely on a series of accords it had reached with \u201cleading\u201d internet service providers, in which ISPs have agreed \u201con principle\u201d to shut off internet access to customers the RIAA catches file sharing repeatedly.<\/p>\n
At that time, in a Jan. 5, 2009 interview, Verizon spokeswoman Ellen Yu said that, in reference to the RIAA announcement: \u201cWe are not working with them on this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cara Duckworth, an RIAA spokeswoman, said the same day that \u201cWe have an agreement on principle with several leading ISPs but not all, and the agreement on principle is confidential.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other than Verizon, none of the leading ISPs have acknowledged practicing what the content industry is calling \u201cgraduated response.\u201d Under Verizon\u2019s plan, the ISP notifies customers that unlawful file sharing allegedly is taking place on their accounts \u2014 file sharing discovered by the RIAA or other intellectual property holders who actively police networks and IP addresses. Internet service could be terminated perhaps after several warnings.<\/p>\n
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