ISP warning and disconnection for downloading

[sparky]

Regarding the agreement between ISP's and the BPI which websites and systems does this apply to?

Is it just PTP and torrents that will be targeted or are sites like R*p*dsh*r* included.

While no doubt 90%+ of the files on R*p*dsh*r*are bootleg copies of some type it does have legitimate uses for file sharing where the files are far too big to email.

How will the ISP's determine if a file or set of files are legitimate or bootleg?

[Jacques]

A predator (the BPI) exerts an evolutionary pressure on its prey (the filesharers) by increasing its capacity to hunt the prey successfully. Some of the prey are better adapted to resist this hunting due to having better camouflage (the new more-anonymous protocols that are on the way) or because they live in tunnels that extend all the way to Sweden, out of the predator's reach. As the predator kills off the weaker members of the herd it ensures that the new resistance to being hunted spreads throughout the population until the predator's advantage is neutralized, its numbers drop from starvation and it has to start again from square one.

Darwin... You gotta love the man

[Lizard]

Or! you could just try using peer Guardian...

[Jacques]

Why bother?

The evidence the BPI use is a screenshot of a swarm.

1. Can it be established that the screenshot is not simply a fake. Anybody can use tattyshop.

2. Can it be established that just because the file is called "Song X" that that is in fact what the file contains. I can download files called "Led Zepplin IV" all day if I like, so long as they do not contain the music therein.

3. That I am not perfectly entitled to download said file. Such as the latest NIN album?

4. That the owner of the IP address in question actually has sole use of that IP address.

The casus belli is weak, very weak.

[Lizard]

My casus belli is fine, always has been.