The Copyright Alert System (CAS) is a “non-punitive,...
The Copyright Alert System (CAS) is a “non-punitive, voluntary effort,” and Comcast doesn’t want to “disrupt” its customers’ Internet access, said a company spokesman Monday. More information about CAS’s mitigation measures for repeat infringers is necessary to determine the viability…
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of the program, said copyright experts in interviews (CD June 10 p9). The idea behind CAS is to have an “educational conversation” with consumers who infringe, said the Comcast spokesman. Repeat infringers using Comcast will receive a “persistent in-browser notification” until the customer contacts the ISP, he said. “Account termination is not an option,” he said. AT&T won’t “terminate a subscriber’s Internet service as part of the CAS program,” said a spokesman by email. AT&T’s mitigation measures “will temporarily redirect the user to a landing page that will require the account holder to review educational material on Copyright,” he said Monday. “Upon completion, the customer will be released from the landing page, and no further action will be taken under the program terms."