Crackdown launched on illegal downloads

[Spacecadet]

What you say makes sense, but presupposes that the ISPs have an intelligent perspective on the future of their business model and how it needs to be adjusted in the light of technological advances and the rapidly-changing attitudes that customers have to a variety of ways of consuming media.

Given that I lost them at the word "intelligent", I very much doubt that ISPs will manage anything less moronic than the music industry manages, which seems to be along the lines of "Let's make our customers hate us, and then we'll all be rich!"

Intelligence would have involved sorting this out years ago... they're already hitting crunch point with the bandwidth thanks to the new streaming video services:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7336940.stm

[The Lone Gunman]

Why is it that you need a court order to tap my mail or telephone yet anyone seems to be able to tap my internet access?

If the music industry wasnt ripping us off so badly on recorded music we wouldnt bothe rdownloading. They are particularly ripping us off on the legal downloading market.

[ace00]

Why is it that you need a court order to tap my mail or telephone yet anyone seems to be able to tap my internet access?

If the music industry wasnt ripping us off so badly on recorded music we wouldnt bothe rdownloading. They are particularly ripping us off on the legal downloading market.

Good point - 79p per download for 1 song on i-tunes!
The music industry need to change their business model. We know it, they know it.
There's a new startup company that have a great idea - what they do is find out what songs are being shared, and where. This provides great marketing information. New model.
In fact the music companies are using some really anti-competitive methods. The cost of a download needs to be opened to competition, it will drop very quickly then because people like me will pay 10p a track or something all day long.