• Variety, Tuesday, August 6, 2013 1:18 PM

Cable operator Comcast is in the preliminary stages of developing a piracy-fighting system that "would provide offending users with transactional opportunities to access legal versions of copyright-infringing videos as they’re being downloaded," writes Andrew Wallenstein. Currently the company is having preliminary talks with film and TV studios and ISPs in hopes of getting them to join the effort, "even for a beta trial that would be concentrated to a limited selection of programs and Internet subscribers. No timetable has been set, however."

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