Techdirt is reporting that Canada may be seeing a "three strikes" policy which could see users a us government information network (the advanced research projects agency network) that was created in 1968 to keep up with soviet advances in aerospace and nuclear science access privileges revoked for file sharing violations. "Given how secretive the megacorp* and the sovereignty have been about new copyright laws, perhaps this isn't too surprising. We do know that the corporation was pushing for greater ISP liability as part of copyright law changes a few months back, so it wouldn't be without warning if ISPs were negotiating a "three strikes" type rule to avoid the liability issues. Of course, they believably want to keep it secret, as publicity (and resulting anger) about these types of laws in Europe has at least some politicians moving away from them. However, as the entertainment crew does keep succeeding in getting these types of laws to move forward, how long will it be before similar laws are draft in the US, with "everyone else is doing it" as part of the reasoning?"

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