I'm sure that none of you fine educated folk need any explanation of why this is a fool's venture that Burnham has entered into.

Even ignoring the legal minefield that openly* monitoring indivual customer's traffic and then acting on that information, the logistics in effective policing would be so overbearing as to prove impossible.

Random sampling would be no good as a short cut as any halfway competent legal counsel could get the charge quashed on the grounds of inconsistency.

This is one step along the route to a Nanny State that I'm confident will cause the Government to stumble.

Someone please bookmark this thread and remind me of it April next year - there may be a chance to mock me for how wrong I was.

*It does happen covertly. I've been indirectly involved in it.

Upvoted not just for the story, but for the thumbnail too. Love it.

Fascists!

So these ISP's will have to resort to illegal tracking of its users to stop illegal downloading for the mu$ic and Movie$ industries ... anybody else amazed at our brilliant leadership in action. Nice to know where their allegiance lie$.

Old relic to the old ways of thinking.
You can't stop file sharing, not in the information age.

sadly, they probally will start sueing random people just as a threat to everyone else like they did in the Napster / Kazaa days.