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Convicted by the Movie Cops
Reckless Visionary writes "Salon has a great article about what it's like to get on the MPAA's bad side. It's a first hand account of what happens when you are accused of violating the DMCA and commentary on the "guilty until proven innocent" nature of today's copyright laws." Pirate movies. Lose access. You are guilty. And this guy was on vacation when it happened, so there's no need for accountability. Hope you don't depend on your net access.
remember these are the people that believe napster was the first file sharing utility... treat them in that regard :)
I love the way the DSL network came into place. I was able to get a faster connection, and keep my ISP that i've been using for years.
The thing with local ISPs is there's so damned many of them, that the big MPAA-type companies don't have the time to deal with them.
I've had a very established working relationship with my ISP, which has incredible uptimes (due to their commercial hosting sector) and friendly, local staff. If they had some kind of MPAA problem like this, I'd storm right into their office, which is only about 5 miles away, and give them hell.
You should take a look at the potentials of local ISPs, especially in relation to privacy, port 80 blocking, MPAA thug attacks, code red worms, and all this other stupid crap that the big boys keep coming up with. If they enforce something on their service that you don't allow, just call up one of the other 40 ISPs in the phone book. A lot of them even give you UNIX shell accounts!