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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Imagine if your ISP could detect every instance that you e-mailed an e-book or music file to someone else (legal or not), and charged you a few cents per item (like your phone company charging you per text message). If the charge is small enough, no one is going to scream about a few cents extra on their bill. (Well, okay... a few of you surely will.) But anyone who disseminates large volumes of illegal e-books or music files won't stomach the huge ISP bills, and most will stop (or lose their account due to non-payment). Look, Ma... I just cut back on illegal file sharing!
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The main issue I see here is firstly that it's way easier said than done. That's a huge amount of packet inspection and imagine the database you'd have to maintain to identify copyrighted works! Besides, it seems it would be easily foiled with encryption. If my ISP tries to limit where and how I encrypt my data, we're going to have a bit of a problem.