In England, Parents to be punished for children's net piracy

"Parents whose children download music and films illegally will be blacklisted and have their internet access curbed under government reforms to fight online piracy. Households that ignore warnings will be subjected to online surveillance and their internet speeds will be reduced, making it very difficult for them to download large files. The measures, the first of their kind in the world, will be announced today(24th july 2008) by Baroness Vadera, who brokered the deal between internet service providers and Ofcom, the telecoms body".

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I am of the opinion that this is a really stupid idea, because people are just going to switch their ISPs.
Anyway, some sort of security method will be implemented by BitTorrent/P2P users to hide their activities, so I guess this is going to be of no use :-)

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