ISPs Soon Forced to Police Your Internet Behavior?

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And how would the ISP know? They can't read packet info that a host downloads. All they can see is how much bandwidth a user takes up. This is so far from fruition its not even funny.
 
sounds to me like proxy servers and encryption will be the new wave of the future, cause if they cannot see what it is then they cannot do anything about it.
 
In related news: Guns will now be held responsible when they are used to commit a crime...

this is just a major cop out. is it soo hard to track down the individuals? try harder.
 
[citation][nom]Exodite10[/nom]mlopinto2k1: You're remarkably naive.If you have nothing to hide you should feel quite comfortable running a public webcam inside your bedroom 24/7 and have an always-on tracking device in your car with receivers given to the police as well as all your friends, family and neighbors.Who knows, it might just save your life.I'm of two minds about this myself. Needless to say it's absurd and retarded in the extreme but over the last decade the need for a violent revolution to turn back the clock on the totalitarian society our elected representatives are creating for us have been growing increasingly obvious.An unabridged implementation of something like this would take us a step closer to the point where the general public has had enough, which would be a good thing in the long run.[/citation]
Here's the thing, they are explicitly talking about PIRATING SOFTWARE, not ANYTHING else. They want ISP's to be held responsible for harboring PIRATES. What don't you understand about this? The ISP's will be forced to implement technology to stop, ban or press charges for breaking the agreement. How is this being Naive?
 
Given this type of mentality, The US Postal Service needs to be held liable (and chargeable) for the delivery of letters or packages that contained anthrax. The postal workers facilitated the delivery of a toxic and potentially lethal substance.

There is a possiblity that illegal drugs get delivered by mail. When will the DEA declare war on the USPS?

Automobile manufacturers provide criminals with means of committing their crimes - and they know they do. It's in the news all the time. There are companies companies providing the necessary power (electricity) to people who make illegal drugs. They should all be held responsible.

Politicians make laws after the fact to prosecute criminals. The politicians need to be held liable for the fact that they didn't act sooner.

I am sick of the attacks on things that have the "ptoential" of being used for illegal activity. For goodness sake, a pen can be used to commit crime (white collar crime is usually done by paperwork). This looks like it is only going to serve a very limited interest group and do nothing to stop crime. The ISPs only defense may be to stop all downloading, period.

I hope this goes the way of the Dodo bird.
 
The first time I read this I thought there's no way anyone could be this retarded. I tend to think that politicians at least make some effort to not seemed bought out, but right now its very obvious they are. While I can see why a lot of people would be seriously up in arms about this, I can be sure that this will never pass. They can invent whatever law they way, but there's no way something like this will ever be accepted. Forget about the actual practicality of this, there are simply too many people (as in all of us) and too many companies that won't let this be. They can call it whatever they want and it still wont help.

As far as I can tell this is just an addon to the net neutrality opposition.

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Since you can electrocute someone, the power companies should be held responsible for what you do with your electricity.

Shipping companies should be held responsible if their customers use a knife that was shipped to them for robbing someone.

Hunting shops should be held responsible for bank robberies.
 
its really annoying every now and then that self serving enterprises are finding ways to circumbent every laws that was faught by your forefathers there long time ago, i like your history because its colorfull and rich in innovations because you are free to do things that other can't, now that demands for information and technology are available to you, these enterprises wants to cash-in precious dollars in every way no matter what, it boils down to what can we gain from it, greediness never stops for these people, sorry for my comment, i just want to hear/see the old days of your culture where people live without intimidation or threat from others.
 
[citation][nom]omnimodis78[/nom]I'm not sure what to comment on since this story seems incomplete. So how would ACTA affect ISP's responsibility to police downloads? Marcus, I am not one of your bashers, but this story is so important and you managed to write a a list of countries who are involved and countries which are not and the rest is left to my imagination. Unless your intention was for me to navigate over to PCWORLD and find out the full story there? Hmm...[/citation]
[citation][nom]omnimodis78[/nom]Marcus, I'm sorry, f. me sideways, I missed the key paragraph... I am ashamed, and obviously semi-blind, sorry, visually impaired.[/citation]
No worries. :) Honestly, there is so much background that goes into the U.S. proposal to the ACTA that wasn't feasible to cover in a news post, but I plan to keep everyone as up to date as possible about where this goes.
 
Just another way to get to the small consumer and held him responsible for downloading something...

Seriously... the movie industry will ask you 50 000$ for a single movie on your computer that could be purchased for 10$ at your local video store.

The thing is... most of my downloads are fansubed stuff... movies unable to get here and TV shows not even on dvd yet (also fansubed). Fansubed are considered legal because the original product is not available in America.

I find it outrageous that billion dollars companies try to steal everything they can for a question of copyrights and ask in returns the honesty of the public. Internet is considered like the devil by big companies, but new artist embrace it because it's the best democratic alternative to get knows...

For example : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI
 
Talk about an invasion into your life. Think of what the ISPs will have to do. All the data they will have to keep about where you have been going. Big Brother in the extreme.

If the Chinese and Russians are out what purpose does this legislation provide other than to monitor everything you do on the web. No I don't pirate.
 
It makes sense although I don't agree with it.
movies companies as much as the ISPs don't like compulsive downloaders and that's even more motivated when they are the same - like some cable TV companies. Costumers would feel betrayed if their ISPs give their data so they can be charged or sued. So, this is a good way to ISPs to say "If I don't go pursuing you (pirate) they're coming for us (ISPs)"
 
[citation][nom]knutjb[/nom]Talk about an invasion into your life. Think of what the ISPs will have to do. All the data they will have to keep about where you have been going. Big Brother in the extreme. If the Chinese and Russians are out what purpose does this legislation provide other than to monitor everything you do on the web. No I don't pirate.[/citation]

They are unable to help you plug a cable on your modem, do you really think they will be able to know what you are downloading on a P2P networks? Maybe they could scan your computer to know if you have suspicious file, but never to reconstitute a downloads that take 3 days to complete...

Oh, well, time to use Truecript... it's a shame we are at this point now.
 
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