User:Novem Linguae/Drafts/Online piracy in the United States

Online piracy in the United States is online piracy, and its associated topics and history, that have taken place in the United States.

alternative titles: Efforts to combat online piracy in the United States, History of online piracy in the United States, Digital piracy in the United States, Digital piracy enforcement in the United States

History
1990's, modern Internet emerging and booming

Napster, KaZaA

PirateBay

DMCA, 1998

RIAA, MPAA, lawsuits, scare letters, expensive settlements

mention Copyright Alert System, 2011-2017. during CAS, they'd give 4 warnings, then throttle your internet speed, and had the "option" to turn off your Internet after 6 warnings in a year, but never exercised it.

what came after CAS? was it stricter? what legislation is the industry working on? has any of it passed?

Passed

 * Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Court cases

 * Sony Music Entm’t v. Cox Commc’ns Inc. - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/1-billion-piracy-ruling-could-force-isps-to-disconnect-more-internet-users/