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Generally the person who signs up for a service is responsible for those who they allow to use it. If you rent an apartment and violate the rental agreement the eviction punishes all who live in the apartment.
In some Canadian jurisdictions the property can be confiscated from the landlord if it is used to sell drugs.
Automobiles can be confiscated at the border for smuggling whether the owner is aware of the smuggling or not.
That said, there have been many attempts to enforce internet controls at the ISP level, by governments to control pirating and by the ISP's themselves to control bandwidth usage. Putting a law in place is easier than enforcing it. To ferret out the guilty from millions of users and penalize them is a monumental task and then there is the time in court for those who dispute their guilt. The government (our taxes) pays for the court time, the ISP has to pay someone to show up and give evidence. Just by showing up in court each defendant could cost hundreds(maybe thousands?) of dollars to prosecute.
The ISP also uses a customer for each one cut off, so how hard will they try?
Helen
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