Now that the first year of the newly implemented “six strikes” Copyright Alert System has come to an end, the Center for Copyright Information has shared the results. In 2013, CCI sent out more than 1.3 million alerts to 722,820 user accounts. Of those alerts, 72% fell under the “educational” category, which indicate the first two of the six strikes. Only 8% of those users went on to reach the mitigation stage, which leads CCI to believe that the alerts are deterring most users from continuing to engage in piracy.
