The MPAA has been pushing for years to get ISP’s to block offshore websites that host ’stolen’ goods. They have now started a push for ISP’s to analyze their customers packets, and shut them down if they can prove that they are pirating. I’m not sure how they would prove that they were pirating and not using bittorrent for legal downloads, but non the less this is bad. Of course the ISP’s haven’t blocked any offshore sites so they probably won’t do this either. Jim Williams, a top exec at the MPAA said: “Much of the Internet is being clogged up with stolen goods,” “Basically you have a bunch of free riders who are hogging the bandwidth (and taking) it away from legitimate consumers.” He argues that people who are pirating are slowing down the entire internet and that is unfair to those users who are just using the internet for legal uses.
Source: CNET
