six strike rule now in effect in the usa

[ProtoX]

the goverment is at it again http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/six_strikes_2013/?akid=2033.587752.L2pI3d&rd=1&t=1

[Covarr]

You are aware that this is just ISPs, not the US government, right?

[EQ2Alyza]

Good. Let the ISP's handle it. They could eventually accuse innocent people and start dealing with lawsuits.

[DLPB_]

The government puts pressure on the ISPs, at least here in Britain that's what happens. 

[ProtoX]

well i feel bad for the peeps who are with those 6 isp that are listed there. i have Cox Hi-speed Internet and there not part of this.
the issue i have is that there forcing those six isp to invade ones privacy on the internet without the consumers aproval.

[Bosola]

The government puts pressure on the ISPs, at least here in Britain that's what happens.

One thing that particularly worries me is the way that this (and previous) governments have tried to redefine 'activity tenuously linked with criminality' with 'actual crimes' - leading to all sorts of suspicious laws around online activity (like that aide of Boris Johnson's who got arrested for writing BDSM fiction, on the basis that it was 'extreme' and 'might inspire violence')