Petition: Don't Let Verizon Kill Free WiFi!

[grahamhgreen]

6. Example, ATT:

“In an effort to assist content owners with combating on-line piracy, AT&T will be sending alert e-mails to customers who are identified as having been downloading copyrighted content without authorization from the copyright owner.”

So if someone at a coffee shop D/L's something ATT deems copyright infringement (note: if it is a crime it should be adjucicated by courts, not by decree of a corporation), they can cut off all of the coffee shop patrons internet access by throttling the D/L spped to the coffee shop. Of course what they really want is for anyone who wants access to the internet to have to pay them individually.