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You make it sound like this is official government policy or a law, but it's just an agreement between some private companies.

Not just any private companies. These are agreements between private companies whose size and influence gives them a unique position of control over peoples' lives; such a partnership, negotiated with the involvement of the white house, might as well be official government policy or law.




Correct. Due to Government policies on broadband and telecomm in general, effectively no competition exists in most urban areas for broadband access.

So, these 6 (or so) ISPs can make an abusive "6 Strikes" copyright regime into de facto national law.




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