[Elfwreck]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

Records of phone calls made can be obtained and/or used.
Delivery of mail as a service connected to the mail seems a bit broad. Like saying the Pizza delivery guy can't eat your pizza or the grocery delivery people can't actually see the food in the box they are delivering.

I don't want my mail carrier reading my mail or inspecting my packages, and I don't want my email carrier reading my email or inspecting my data-packets. I don't see a lot of difference.

Pretty sure real estate rental is not considered a service provided by the landlord even in a hotel. Some exceptions but in general not for renting personal living space.

While it's not the same as hiring someone to do a specific task, it is hiring the use of someone else's resources, and that person has some rights to make sure their resources aren't misused. Why couldn't the same principle be applied to landlords who want to make sure their property isn't being damaged? They could claim that they only watch the recordings for purposes of checking for damage and don't care what people do with their personal lives.

And the mail delivery people need a court order to legally examine your packages in most cases while the customs people do not. If the mail people feel that dangerous/contraband goods are contained in your mail (letters or packages) they can get that court order pretty fast or in some cases legally proceed without one.

I don't have a problem with ISPs who suspect specific illegal activity seeking a warrant. However, this is requiring that they inspect individual usage without any suspicion (at some cost, and passing that along to the users), and curtail internet access based on the accusation of potential criminal activity, rather than anything that touches the courts.

Which is the main point--the RIAA and MPAA would like to avoid the necessity of filing charges; they want someone else to take on the expense of enforcing their rights--and enforcing rights they don't actually have. They are happy to cut into legal downloads and data-copying (for example, me uploading a file I receive at work into cloud storage, and downloading it when I'm home) in order to stop an activity they insist is costing them money, even though they can't produce any direct numbers for that.