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Originally Posted by Kolargol
ISPs have to give your details if you steal money from someone's bank account online. If the anti piracy law was passed and stealing music was a crime just like stealing money from a bank account the ISPs would have to comply. So technically it's probably possible.
The problem is there are many other reasons not to pass such law...
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We are talking about volumes here and the enforcement and compliance.
In the past year, we have received ONE grand jury subpoena to turn over records for law enforcement. It was for someone who was supposedly extorting someone in Maine. Something that, I am sure you can concede, doesn't happen that often.
While we are not the biggest ISP by any means, with around 500 clients, you can imagine some companies like Charter, Softlayer, or companies much bigger would need an army of enforcement people to keep up with all of the requests. Whether they have them logged or not.
Which then leads to the slippery slope of them invading your privacy and starting to pro-actively SEARCH what you are doing as a form of cost control. Now you have a private company involved in privacy to control their costs by passing new policies as to what is and is not allowed and they will search accordingly if you use their service.
With most areas of this country, there is a single broadband provider. Whether that is telco, cable, whatever. Which leads to you being regulated and possibly restricted from internet access all together because your kids was doing torrents or tube sites.
The point being, most intelligent people do not want to sacrifice all of that on the slippery slope because some copyright holders refuse to spend their own money policing their shit. So they want the government and private industry to do it for them....... basically both policing, and paying the tab.
