70% of P2P Users Would Stop if Warned by ISP

Umpire writes "As the UK considers a three strikes policy to fight copyright infringement, a new survey reports that 70% of UK broadband users would stop using P2P if they received a warning from their ISP. 'Wiggin commissioned the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey, which found that 70 percent of all people polled said they would stop illegally sharing files if their ISP notified them in some way that it had detected the practice. When broken down by age group, an unexpected trend emerges: teenagers are generally more likely to change their behavior than older Internet users.'"

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[Wowsers]

And now many users would tell their ISP to take a hike and move? It's not their job to "police" the internet, just provide the access to it. I told my last ISP to take a hike when they started to use "traffic shaping", even on stuff like VoIP (many saw it as a way of being cheap on bandwidth while charging a tonne - and like me left).

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[shmlco]

Right. Only, what, 70-80% of the traffic consists of illegally distributed content? Hardly worth mentioning, really.