Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

please note I do believe sharing of copyrighted material is theft and I do not support such action

however my attention was caught by this

"Such a law would force ISPs to warn, then disconnect, those customers they think have been sharing copyrighted material online"

I sincerely hope that is a typo

I don't care what an ISP "thinks", if they warn or try to disconnect someone I know then they'd better be able to "prove in a court of law" that they are in the right because thats where they will end up

so, my personal predictions on what this legislation will achieve

1 - file sharers will adopt encrypted and secure communication methods to prevent ISP's from doing a stateful packet inspection and proving that the files being shared are copyright material, so ISP's will be forced to take action based on suspicion rather than proof

2 - a rise in court cases, where ISP's ban users who are innocent of any wrongdoing

3 - a rise in broadband costs and a degradation in service as the ISP's will have to pay for this somehow

4 - a huge drop in the use of broadband, in this country at least, as people drop their access rather than be branded a criminal

and this protects and improves consumer righs rather than enforcing copyright protection how, exactly