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Story: Government hints at ISP file-sharing crackdown
How much could ISPs really do?
It's good to see the authorities over here putting the onus on ISPs and professional file-sharers rather than suing single mothers for hundreds of thousands of dollars ( your choice of tracks was definitely not worth it) as record companies in the US did recently.
However - it's not clear to me how granular ISPs can go in terms of monitoring the types of traffic on their networks. It sounds possible in theory, but the costs of policing networks could be enormous - which I guess they would have to pass onto the consumer - so we'd have to pay more for a restricted service - great.
Andrew Donoghue
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