Originally Posted by AtomicFuse
Personally I think its an outrage, another form of control from the government, to which everyone just accepts. Does no one see this?
I don't see any aspect of goverment controlling in this. Even if there was, don't you think a govt has the right to enforce its laws?
Originally Posted by finnrogers
What about people whose computers have been "zombied" and are actually just being used by some hacker who is the real one doing the illegal downloading.
There has already been a number of people complaining that they have received these letters when they have never downloaded or shared music before.
What about people piggybacking your wireless connection to download music?
Recently a court in Germany rejected a case because the "downloader" said that his open wireless connection was misused and he couldn't be held responsible for the actions of somebody else (rightly so in my opinion).
That's precisely the reason they're sending out letters to the bill payers - to help them realise that someone is using their service illegally. Once you know there is a problem you can do something about it.
The pirate bay is currently looking at encrypting the data sent to and from bittorrent servers which sounds promising.
Or could do more damage.
Originally Posted by shaithis
Personally I fail to see how they can impose this until there has been a gigantic "wireless security education" initiative from the government......Something I can't see happening any time soon.
I think these letters count as a form of education.
Originally Posted by M0nkeyb0Y
My point was: how will they ascertain that one is a 'pirate' without keeping a log of what you download?
ISPs do have such logs.