The Power of the ISP?

[maxbailey]

What do you lot think about this...

Six of the UK's biggest net providers have agreed a plan with the music industry to tackle piracy online.

The deal, negotiated by the government, will see hundreds of thousands of letters sent to net users suspected of illegally sharing music.

But the music industry wants people's internet cut off if they ignore repeated warnings, something the web firms say they are not prepared to do.

BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse have all signed up.

Full story here...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7522334.stm

[Trips]

That is fucking retarded. Piracy is all fun and bad until someone's bottom line gets jacked

[RvP]

the thing is the ISP dont want to cut us off from the internet, and i never thought id say this but they are kinda saving the day here, they only send the letter out to make it look like they are doing something

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If all goes well that is they might actually start coming after people. Stupid Execs.

[Marie-Eve Martinez]

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That's kind of what I was thinking. I mean really isn't everyone downloading like crazy and using shitloads of bandwidth GOOD for the ISPs? What the fuck do they care anyways?