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A post on Slashdot by Dangerous_Minds links to a parade of horrors with the new “Copyright Alert System” — the voluntary six-strikes-and-you’re-out copyright enforcement system that America’s major ISPs have chosen to enact on behalf of the MPAA and the RIAA. It’s trivial to hijack, clobbers small business owners who let people use their Internet access.

Most immediately, it also requires its victims to complete an online copyright re-education camp designed by the major record labels and studios, and as EFF’s Corynne McSherry points out, this is a total clusterpoop, a way of ramming inaccurate copyright information into the nation’s eyeballs. Unsurprisingly, the gross errors in the mandatory copyright reeducation materials would all improve the profitability of the entertainment industry if they were taken to heart by the public.