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, Ars Technica reports.
The warning system, colloquially known as “six strikes,” for the various degrees of intensity of alerts issued to repeat offenders, could be accompanied by action from internet service providers to slow customer internet connections or cut off access to the internet for individual users completely, according to Ars Technica. The system has been long delayed, originally supposed to be launched by the end of 2011 and then this summer.
