This is exactly the sort of thing that turns otherwise law abiding citizens into people who believe that the RIAA and the record companies deserve exactly what they’re getting from the torrent sites & P2P.
Also, there are unintended consequences.
One group of people making real profits off this are VPN providers. Basically you pay $10 a month and connect to the VPN network through your normal connection. All anyone looking at your traffic on the ISP level can see after you’ve done that are the encrypted packets flitting back and forth between your PC and the VPN provider.
They can tell how much bandwidth you’re using, but not where the data is coming from or going to.
Alot of ‘em openly advertise that they don’t keep logs, thus making it impossible to tell who was using a particular IP at a certain time even if they wanted to.
Its quite amusing to me that the main effect of the RIAA “crackdown” has been to drive innovations in privacy technology.
And who is the Lobbyist for RIAA ?
Chris Dodd, disgraced Senator from Connecticut - skedaddled out of Congress in the dark of the night before some Republican brought charges against him for taking gifts from Countrywide.
Scott free when he should be wearing stripes.