Internet Downfall Today Verizon and Time Warner decided to test their new "Copyright Alert System" to help the Entertainment industry fight for copyrighted material by slowing down user internet speeds if they find out your downloading pirated material. I don't condone downloading copyrighted material, but the new partnership between Internet service providers and the entertainment industry raises questions. The internet is in big trouble in this country, instead of trying to innovate and let the flow of information happen, this government is trying to regulate, and the private institutions are trying to monetize a situation they could have controlled back when the internet first came out.