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Comcast to Send out Notices of Copyright Infringement
This year, internet service providers have agreed to work with the recording industry in hopes of defeating illegal file sharing. A senior vice president for Comcast, the nation’s second largest internet service provider, Joe Waz, has said that the company has issued 2 million notices (as of March, 2009) on behalf of copyright owners.
The notices are not a policy but rather a standard practice. In a statement, Comcast said, “Comcast, like other major ISPs, forwards notices of alleged infringement that we receive from music, movie, videogame, and other content owners to our customer… This is the same process we’ve had in place for years–nothing has changed. While we have always supported copyright holders in their efforts to reduce piracy under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and continue to do so, we have no plans to test a so-called ‘three-strikes-and-you’re-out’ policy.”
Waz made his statements while being part of a panel at the Leadership Music Digital Summit in Nashville. An AT&T executive also issued a statement at the same panel that it will also be cooperating with the RIAA by sending notices to customers as a trial program.
Comcast, however, did not state that it will cease customer’s service.