RIAA chief: ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
Found on CNet News on Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Last July, Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable and other bandwidth providers announced that they had agreed to adopt policies designed to discourage customers from pirating music, movies and software over the Web. Since then, the ISPs have been very quiet about their antipiracy measures.
The program, commonly referred to as "graduated response," requires that ISPs send out one or two educational notices to those customers who are accused of downloading copyrighted content illegally. If the customer doesn't stop, the ISP is then asked to send out "confirmation notices" asking that they confirm that they have received notice.
When the ISP's start to spy on their users quite a few will use the chance to sue them. After all, an ISP only provides access, nothing more. People wouldn't want the guys from the post office to read their mail either.