Ransomware is such a big, booming business that even copyright cops seem to want a piece of the action.

Collecting money from copyright infringers is not as profitable as Rightscorp may have originally hoped, so the copyright enforcement company has come up with a new Scalable Copyright scheme that it is pitching to ISPs.

In a filing, anti-piracy firm Rightscorp claimed to have discussed implementing its Scalable Copyright system with multiple ISPs. Since receiving notices about infringing via a browser are not unheard of, Rightscorp proposed ISPs go the additional mile by turning those notices into browser-based ransomware copyright infringement fines. In essence, your browser would be locked until you pay.

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