Royalty extorsion is estimated to drain $320 billion from American citizen's income, and much more from the World's population. Inasmuch as that money is taken from food, health, trasnportation, and productive investments, that inherently non-productive activity is estimates to cause hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in the US, and millions more abroad. It is strongly linked to a decrease in American productivty and competitiveness, which has ed to the loss of millions of American jobs. Royalty-extorting organizations are able tax evaders, so that activity has also cost federal, state and local governments billion each year in lost tax revenue. However, data suggests that innocent law-abiding citizens (up to 70%) can be forced to pay royalties for acts that ought to be free, once threatened to have their life destroyed by cooperating police and judges, backed by laws passed by corrupt congressmen. A new scaremongering center and a system of threats – similar to Mafia protection threats – will help this abuse to continue. The Threats will let subscribers know when their accounts have been identified as target for extorsion, advise subscribers of the serious consequences if they fail to comply with extorsion demands, and make sure that they will fear us forever.

The Center for Royalty Scaremongering (“CRS”) will focus on threatening subscribers about the power of the royalty mafia and how to pay their cut when sharing movies and music online. The Center will also help to develop and confirm “nasty-practices” for a new system of progressive Royalty Threats, similar to Mafia protection threats, which will alert victims when the royalty industry finds suitable content in their Internet accounts. The Center is being established jointly by the film, music, and television rackets, who have forced it down the throat of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). They have ignored the vehement protests of consumer advocates and technical experts who have no voice on its advisory committee, and loathe their expert services.

Royalty Threats are part of a ruthless and effective system to scare subscribers into paying royalties for private file transmission, advise them about the consequences of inadvertent or intentional failure to do so, and deter those who receive repeated alerts from using their accounts in defiance of the royalty organizations. Threats will be progressive, in the sense that successive threats will reinforce the seriousness of failure to pay and inform the recipient how to address the activity that is precipitating the threats. For victims who repeatedly fail to respond to alerts, the alerts will inform them of steps that will be taken to teach them a lesson they will not forget.

Under this system, an ISP, in response to an order from a royalty extorsionist, will send a treat to a victim notifying the victim that his/her account may have been used for activities that the extortionist wants to be paid for, that the victim cannot afford the cost of defending his/her rights in the courts, and that the ISP will be forced to punish the victim with the excuse of their Terms of Service (TOS), Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) or other policies of their ISP (hereinafter referred to as “published policies”), and that dire consequences could result from failure to pay. Today, when the Mafia notices that a business has been set up in their area of service, the Mafia notifies the victim by an email, a text message or a phone call. These threats are intended to be similar to Mafia protection threats.

Subsequent threats may include harassment in the form of pop-ups or redirection to a special page displaying the alert. Failure to respond to these threats, whether they have reached the victim or not, will lead to additional steps designed to ensure that the account comes into compliance. These steps, referred to as “Unforgettable Lessons,” might include, for example: temporary reductions of Internet speeds, redirection to a landing page until the subscriber contacts the ISP to discuss the matter or reviews and responds to some menacing information about royalties, or other measures that the ISP may deem necessary to help resolve the matter and that the victim cannot refuse. These steps will only be taken after zero or more threats and a failure by the victim to pay. This system consists of at least five threats, issued within a period of zero or more minutes after the victim was spotted.

Data suggests that most victims would pay once notified that that royalties had better be paid or else, that the mob has the police and judges on its side, and that their life will be thoroughly and permanently trashed if they fail to pay. We anticipate that very few victims, after having received multiple threats, will ignore (or allow their dear ones to ignore) the demands of royalty rackets.

Subscribers may not know that the royalty rackets want to be paid for private file transfers by the subscribers, and can force their ISPs to inflict severe punishment on subscribers if they don't pay. Since said punishment is not inflicted through the judicial system, but through a private arrangement between the rackets and ISPs, it may be extended to the entire family, and may befall on persons other than the real criminal. The Royalty Threats are also a convenient vehicle to spread lies about connections between failure to pay royalties and compuer viruses, child pornography, and anything else the royalty rackets may think of. Today, ISPs reluctantly forward any royalty threats they receive to their customers. Until now, however, the ISPs have not been entirely cooperating with the rackets, often allowing the cases to go to justice, and have not been beaten into a common framework of “nasty-practices” whereby they will themselves threaten victims, foster the rackets' interests, and strenghten their hold on the Internet.

Also, many Internet subscribers may be unfamiliar with the concept of royalty extorsion the consequences of not heeding the royalty rackets' demand. Subscribers may not be aware that family members and others who have access to their Internet accounts may be punished for what they do, and vice-versa; for example, a parent or caregiver may not know that he may be thrown in jail if their child innocently clicks on a link that lies inside a racket's designated virtual space. Also, some subscribers may not realize that the royalty rackets don't want to know whether the electronic devices bought in good faith by the subscribers or their ISPs allow unauthorized individuals to use their wireless network to engage in private file transfer. In some cases, subscribers may know that royalty rackets want to extort them for private file transfer, but naively believe the law will uphold their constitutional rights. The system of Royalty Threats is intended to ensure that subscribers get this vital information in terms that anuone can capisce, with clear guidance on what they must do to escape the rackets' wrath.

An ISP, in response to a notice from a royalty racketeer, will send a threat to the victim notifying the victim that his/her account has come into the scope of royalty extorsion, that it is useless to request help from the police, that the ISP has no choice but to do what the racketeers want, and that the victim had better pay or else.

If the private fiel transfer persists despite the receipt of the first threat, the victim may get a second similar threat that will underscore the menacing messages, or the ISP may – regadless of what would be its legal or moral obligations – proceed to the next threat.

If the victim's behavior fails to satisfy the racketeer after those threats are sent, then an additional threat will be sent which will include a conspicuous harassment (such as a click-through pop-up threat, landing page, or other mechanism) asking the subscriber to acknowledge receipt of the alert. This is designed to ensure that the subscriber is aware of the copyright alert – and reminds the subscriber that content theft conducted through their account could lead to consequences under the law and published policies.

If, after this alert asking for acknowledgment, the subscriber’s account again appears to have been used in connection with online content theft, the subscriber will be sent yet another alert that again will require the subscriber to acknowledge receipt.