The thing is, even if the ISPs are forced to comply (which would be a shame), piracy wouldn’t stop.

It makes me laugh when the entertainment industries seem to think that there will be a “solution” to piracy.

Admittedly I haven’t seen the technical details of the traffic monitoring and disconnect policies but I’d imagine they’re fairly simple to bypass.

These things always tend to be botched and vulnerabilities would easily be found. Even if you just encrypt your traffic and connect through tor (a popular proxy/onion routing program) they’ll find it more difficult to track you, and there’s far more that can be done.

Also, I believe they’re going to enforce WPA2 encryption on all users with a wireless connection so that we can’t claim someone else “hacked” our connection and used it for nefarious purposes. There goes my excuse!

But seriously, this will at best deter a few 13 year olds. It seems to be an exercise in futility.