 jsz0Premium
join:2008-01-23
Jewett City, CT | Rebellion I think the ISPs need to be careful here. The internet community has shown many times they are willing to push back. It wouldn't surprise me to see some enterprising person writes a virus/trojan that included a BT client that automatically downloaded MPAA/RIAA material in the background, deleted it a few days later, and started the process over. This would generate thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of false-positives and basically cripple the ISP business model in the US if they really were prepared to kick off 10% of their users in a single month for the MPAA/RIAA. I know some people like that... they are fanatical and frankly dangerous people. I hope the MPAA/RIAA isn't trying to start a war with them because it will get very ugly. It might be a classic case of the cure being worse than the disease. |
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JigglywareGelatin based computing
join:2006-01-09
Kenosha, WI | Your comment about the bittorrent virus gave me a thought: Why couldn't malware writers come up with a botnet that did nothing but torrent movies, then sell access to those who want to avoid getting any strikes? If something like this three strikes thing actually comes into force, I can foresee a huge market for services that would bypass any monitoring. I really think that implementing draconian penalties will only drive copyright infringers underground and may even make the situation worse for the copyright holders. |
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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | said by Jigglyware:If something like this three strikes thing actually comes into force, I can foresee a huge market for services that would bypass any monitoring. I really think that implementing draconian penalties will only drive copyright infringers underground and may even make the situation worse for the copyright holders. That's happening now and it's reason number 456 that ISPs shouldn't turn against their users.
If the ISPs keep the users' trust, then users are more apt to voluntarily use technologies that cooperate with the ISP and can keep some or most of the traffic on-net (P4P, caching, P2P -- all of which do tend to keep some of the traffic on the ISP's own network).
But if the users don't trust the ISP, then they will use these anonymizing services and then 100% of the data incoming and outgoing goes out of the ISP's part of the network through a higher-cost 3rd-party transit provider.
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 RallyBah HumbugPremium
join:2000-10-27
Astoria, NY
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I would love to see a internet revolution, but sadly it'll garner less support. People are just content on the status quo.
Pirates never use their own personal ISP connection. So again, it'll never effect the pirate(s) but the common user as always. |
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