Music Industry Drafts Code of Conduct for ISPs

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 12, 2005 @03:49AM from the because-of-their-moral-high-ground dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Register is running a story about how the music industry is trying to get ISPs to sign 'code of conduct' agreements to cut people off for excessive bandwidth usage, to turn over details of users on demand, and to block certain 'illegal' websites." From the article: "According to the draft, the duo want ISPs and network operators to 'enforce terms of service that prohibit a subscriber from operating a server, or from consuming excessive amounts of bandwidth where such consumption is a good indicator of infringing activities.'"

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I..um..wow by grasshoppa · 2005-04-12 03:56 · Score: 1, Redundant

That's ballsy. Seriously, who do these people think they are?

Were I an ISP, on principle alone, I'd tell them where to shove their "code".

Hyopcrits.

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That's all well and good, but by XxtraLarGe · 2005-04-12 06:04 · Score: 1, Redundant

who's going to draft a code-of-conduct for the Music industry?

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