Originally Posted by M0nkeyb0Y
Not at all - a more appropriate analogy would be: it's a cheek that police repeatedly stop and search me every time I walk to and from work.
I guess I just covet my privacy a little more than you.
Nothing was said in this statement about how evidence is gathered.
If the music industry approach ISPs with logs of the occasions an IP address has been used for illegal purposes, and at that time, the ISP had that IP address allocated to you, then they have every justification in looking into that.
Of course, if you aren't downloading illegal materials, that won't happen, will it?
Believe me, I covet my privacy very, VERY seriously. Take a look at some of my statements on this forum about this issue. For a start, I've pointed out that I'm very likely to give up all regular internet access (at least, other than via public connection, and maybe picking up mail) if Phorm goes ahead and I can't find a Phorm-less ISP.
But this is not about privacy. It's about piracy. And I have NO problem with people repeatedly and extensively abusing other people's copyright getting booted off their ISP. For a start, if all that illegal downloading and uploading gets stopped, maybe I'll actually start getting the ISP service I'm paying for without pirates gobbling up huge chunks of bandwidth with their illegal activities.