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I'm not a pirate, I don't download music nor do I advocate copyright theft either but I do greatly object to this on principle.

A friend of mine got a threatening letter from his ISP not so long ago alleging he'd downloaded some X-Box game via P2P. He owns a PC and a PS3 and whilst I can't claim to know a great deal about his 'net habits he did say the last thing he'd downloaded was weeks before and it was an Ubuntu ISO. So I'm not at all convinced of the accuracy of some of this monitoring regardless of our viewpoints on rights and wrongs of the ISPs monitoring their users' behaviour anyway.

You guys who support this are entitled to your opinion but for me this is a step too far and for all the wrong reasons. I still think it utterly stinks and hope people vote with their feet and change ISPs - assuming we will still have ISPs left who do not bend over so far to pressure from an industry which largely has itself to blame for the current predicament it finds itself in.