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Water Paradox asks: "A friend of mine recently discovered that his ISP had deleted all of his MP3 files without notice. He is a succesful local DJ with numerous recordings to his name, and the MP3s were all of his own material. He said he zipped them up and within 8 hours, they were back on his site, so all is well. My question is, are other people experiencing this? Perhaps this is a question for Ralph Naderians, but what resources do we as ISP users have against this kind of action?" The ISP in question is Half Price Hosting, and aparently they have an automated process that deletes all MP3s from their servers. Now I do agree that ISPs have the right to police their machines, but is it really right for them to delete files from a user's Web site without even a nastygram explaining why such action was taken? What should we do when ISPs resort to this type of behavior and they are the ones in the wrong? This is a fairly important issue as everyone on the Internet deals with an ISP of some form. If this behavior isn't checked, the next time something like this might happen it could be any file, not just MP3s. Update: 11/23 by J : As several comments have noted, grep their terms of service for "MP3" (Cliff and I would have done this last night but their website was down). Then go read your ISP's terms...

Water Paradox asks: "A friend of mine recently discovered that his ISP had deleted all of his MP3 files without notice. He is a succesful local DJ with numerous recordings to his name, and the MP3s were all of his own material. He said he zipped them up and within 8 hours, they were back on his site, so all is well. My question is, are other people experiencing this? Perhaps this is a question for Ralph Naderians, but what resources do we as ISP users have against this kind of action?" The ISP in question is Half Price Hosting, and aparently they have an automated process that deletes all MP3s from their servers. Now I do agree that ISPs have the right to police their machines, but is it really right for them to delete files from a user's Web site without even a nastygram explaining why such action was taken? What should we do when ISPs resort to this type of behavior and they are the ones in the wrong? This is a fairly important issue as everyone on the Internet deals with an ISP of some form. If this behavior isn't checked, the next time something like this might happen it could be any file, not just MP3s. Update: 11/23 by J : As several comments have noted, grep their terms of service for "MP3" (Cliff and I would have done this last night but their website was down). Then go read your ISP's terms...