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Originally Posted by TeaForOne
True. ISPs could be the last straw. But they're scared to do so, cos they know another ISP won't be so leniant = customers go to them or just use VPSs/RDPs. You have to be seen to stopping pirates... but what is a vast majority of your customers are pirates? You all have pirated, haven't you? I don't believe anyone here hasn't had an illegal copy of movie/audio/pdf/mp3 or seen an illegal stream etc... and the general public is the same. It's a brutal cat-and-mouse game. I feel for the small content producers. It must be crippling.
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Read my post above, it won't be the ISPs that make the decision. Congress introduced a bill sometime ago that would give a government panel the ability to tell ISPs what sites are to be blocked.
Anyone from Australia knows how it works.
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Internet censorship in Australia currently consists of a regulatory regime under which the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has the power to enforce content restrictions on Internet content hosted within Australia, and maintain a "black-list" of overseas websites which is then provided for use in filtering software.
Since October 2008, the governing Australian Labor Party has proposed to extend Internet censorship to a system of mandatory filtering of overseas websites which are, or potentially would be, "refused classification" (RC) in Australia. This means that internet service providers would be required to block access to such content for all users.
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Proponents want to enact the same system here except for piracy, it won't happen overnight but IMO, it's coming.