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Old 07-25-2008, 11:13 AM  
duff
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Originally Posted by testpie View Post
That's always a dangerous assumption that people in favour of any new authority make - be it ID cards, a potential "three strikes" rule for downloaders and etcetera. The problem with the statement is that you have to implicitly trust your ISP to become judge, jury and executioner with your actions - and considering most ISPs can't even bill 99% of their customer base correctly half the time, do you really think they can be trusted with deciding whether what you download is illegal or not?
If it's between allowing millions of people to continue to freeload and dismantle the recording, movie and adult industries. Or letting my isp decide if what I'm doing is legal or not, yes I'm willing to trust them.

It's a pretty black or white decision for them. They can see what you're downloading and where it's coming from, it should be pretty easy.

I'm open to better suggestions on how to handle the issue though...
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