The ant-piracy Copyright Alert System: Is the Napster era finally dead?

http://theweek.com/article/index/240718/the-anti-piracy-copyright-alert-system-is-the-napster-era-finally-dead

In America, the 5 biggest Internet providers have partnered with the music industry and Hollywood to stop illegal downloading. Will it work??

When Napster first arrived on the scene they was a legal peer-to-peer sharing website but consumers used it for illegal downloading of copyrighted software. Soon after Napster ran into copyright problems and ceased with operations.

With the Internet struggling to contain illegal downloading of songs and albums since Napster arrised in the 1990s. It really began to take off when broadband connection was established and illegal downloads went off the rails. In America Hollywood studios joined within the fight to stop illegal downloading. As early threats to the public the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) began to sue college kids and mums for illegally downloading over peer-to-peer websites such as Napster. By doing this they gained a villianus reputation.

Fresh in the news this week those groups and 5 major American Internet service providers (ISP) launched a new scheme which involved the Six-Strikes Copyright Alert System. And this is how this works:
Groups, MPAA and RIAA will carefully monitor peer-to-peer file sharing websites such as torrent websites. The system is designed to catch people uploading or downloading anything over these torrent sites and they will record the consumers I.P address and send it to their provider and eventually reaching their computer screens. This process will happen and a series of up to 6 warnings will be sent to the user of the computer using the peer-to-peer websites.