Best wishes

You have to admire the RIAA for sticking to their policy for the last few years of suing the shit out of everyone. That gained them huge amounts of public adoration....not. The RIAA has finally decided that their slash and burn policy needs to be abandoned and they are finally getting smart.

They are now courting the largest ISPs in the country and trying to convince them to "police" their own customers. This is a brilliant move by the RIAA, they can get someone to do the work for them AND absorb all the bad press involved with restricting access to pirated material. Funny thing is that this will end up making the problems worse for both the RIAA and every ISP out there.

Once there are no "safe harbor" ISP left for pirates to use then they will be left with only one option, encrypt all the traffic. Once the traffic is encrypted then it will be immune to most methods of detection for content and that will make pirated material nearly impossible to track by either the RIAA or the ISP. What will the ISPs do then, throttle all encrypted traffic back to eliminate piracy? That won't go over well with business users that rely on encrypted VPN connections to work remotely. Then there are the inherent national security issues of hundreds of terabytes of encrypted data flooding the internet that could easily obscure traffic of geniune concern.