—The smart ISPs aren’t going to punish their customers to help the record companies (unless they want to lose customers to their competiton.)—
Exactamundo. That approach works mostly with universities and colleges (who set up firewalls making hard to use p2p software) because:
1. They are afraid of lawsuits
2. Those darn kids are hogging valuable bandwith by file-sharing.
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In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits (will enlist help of ISP’s instead), seatrout wrote:
—The smart ISPs aren’t going to punish their customers to help the record companies (unless they want to lose customers to their competiton.)—
Exactamundo. That approach works mostly with universities and colleges (who set up firewalls making hard to use p2p software) because:
1. They are afraid of lawsuits
2. Those darn kids are hogging valuable bandwith by file-sharing.”
Those darned kids are also the ones doing most of the illegal file sharing (ruining it for everyone else who wants to use it for a legitimate purpose.)
The crooks like the college kids doing illegal file sharing should be cracked down on.
I think I copied some extra stuff into my last reply accidently (and here I thought someone was posting something witty till I saw I had posted it.) ;)