Apparently, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (make sure you read that second-last word carefully) wants ISPs to disconnect people who are caught illegally downloading music.
But there’s no way an ISP will agree to that. Here’s why: if they disconnect my service, I’m going to switch to a different ISP!
It’s hard enough for ISPs to convince customers to stay – that’s why they try to lock you in to a 12- or 24-month contract. So there’s no way they’re going to agree to actually force someone to switch away from them.
I recently received a letter from ISP about this. They basically said, “we hope nobody would be using our service to do anything illegal,” but telling people they’ll disconnect you is one thing – actually doing at the request of some “international federation” of a funny-sounding industry is something totally different.
It’s amazing how much these people are disconnected from reality.