Verizon's 'six strikes' policy will reportedly make users watch an anti-piracy video before bandwidth is throttled

We got some details on Verizon's (and Time Warner Cable's) so-called six strikes policy for dealing with piracy back in November, but TorrentFreak has now turned up more details on just how it will work. According to a copy of Verizon's full policy obtained by the site, the six strikes are actually divided into three tiers, giving users increasingly serious alerts before their bandwidth speeds are reduced to 256 kbps. The first of those are fairly straightforward emails and voicemails informing ...