ISPs given deadline for file-sharing crackdown
Unenforceable: A desparate record industry

So now it's an ISP's duty to spy on its own customers on behalf of the music industry!
There really are no limits for these people, esentially they're asking ISPs to; invest in technology and resources to inspect every packet of every download, then cut off and blacklist every culprit they find, all in the name of protecting the record industry's business?
What about the ISP's business? for each person they cut off, they loose a paying customer, for each person blacklisted, another ISP looses a potential customer..

It will be interesting to see whether ISP's will actually voluntarily alianate their own customers. If i were an ISP, i'd frankly tell the record industry to do their own job.
If they've failed in their efforts to clamp down on illegal file hosting (and that is an easier task), what are the chances that ISP will succeed in this un-insentivised effort?

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Body [quote="harpless"]So now it's an ISP's duty to spy on its own customers on behalf of the music industry! There really are no limits for these people, esentially they're asking ISPs to; invest in technology and resources to inspect every packet of every download, then cut off and blacklist every culprit they find, all in the name of protecting the record industry's business? What about the ISP's business? for each person they cut off, they loose a paying customer, for each person blacklisted, another ISP looses a potential customer.. It will be interesting to see whether ISP's will actually voluntarily alianate their own customers. If i were an ISP, i'd frankly tell the record industry to do their own job. If they've failed in their efforts to clamp down on illegal file hosting (and that is an easier task), what are the chances that ISP will succeed in this un-insentivised effort?[/quote]

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Do the file sharers encrypt their data over their networks? If so, will they be forced to give the keys to their ISP's?

And how will they know if an MP3 is copyrighted or not, will they compare the music to a database? The same with films and freeware/GPLware.

All this on the fly.

And I'm not happy about them having the power to totally disconnect someone from the internet. Surely only the courts should have the authority to do that.

Body [quote="Mark"]Do the file sharers encrypt their data over their networks? If so, will they be forced to give the keys to their ISP's? And how will they know if an MP3 is copyrighted or not, will they compare the music to a database? The same with films and freeware/GPLware. All this on the fly. And I'm not happy about them having the power to totally disconnect someone from the internet. Surely only the courts should have the authority to do that.[/quote]

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Business should be made to have an annual Software Licence 'MOT' Declaration, which is then verified by VAT/Tax Inspectors, afterall its a VAT underpaymnet in effect. Regulating the Web is a very dangerous game and maybe the ISP should distinguish between business and personal/private connections. Clean up business's first before you go after the kid downloading his favourite Album. Personally I believe that falling CD/DVD Sales is due to being more informed - most people can find out if an Album/DVD is a dud through online reviews, text messages between Friends. You just can sell Crap anymore - and it seems thats what is upsetting the big 5 Media labels.

Body [quote="adamjarvis"]Business should be made to have an annual Software Licence 'MOT' Declaration, which is then verified by VAT/Tax Inspectors, afterall its a VAT underpaymnet in effect. Regulating the Web is a very dangerous game and maybe the ISP should distinguish between business and personal/private connections. Clean up business's first before you go after the kid downloading his favourite Album. Personally I believe that falling CD/DVD Sales is due to being more informed - most people can find out if an Album/DVD is a dud through online reviews, text messages between Friends. You just can sell Crap anymore - and it seems thats what is upsetting the big 5 Media labels.[/quote]

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