The entertainment industry clearly wants ISPs to become content nannies, implementing everything from copyright file filters to kicking copyright infringers from the Internet. Given these systems are expensive to implement and support, may not work, and are being created essentially to protect the entertainment industry's outdated business models, many people (including ISPs, obviously) think the entertainment industry should pay for it. That's the debate currently going on in the UK, where the recording industry is trying to pretend that implementing all of these systems is going to be dirt cheap:As the entertainment industry starts pushing ISPs here in the States harder on these issues, that same question is going to flare up here as well. While giant carriers with one leg sunk in the content industry (Comcast, AT&T) may think the cost is worth it, their investors certainly won't. Meanwhile smaller ISPs have already stated that they may not survive if asked to foot the bill. So who will pay? Probably you. One possible outcome could be the creation of a "piracy tax" levied on all broadband users, whether they violate copyrights or not. That would please Hollywood and, assuming ISPs get a small cut, ISPs and investors as well.