* The record labels are entrusted with valuable content by the artists and have failed to secure it so that it can't be made freely available over the net.
* The presence of this poorly protected content is now clogging the arteries of the net.
* ISPs are having to dedicate manhours and effort into maintaining the stability of their networks through bandwidth throttling and policy due to this poorly protected content being available for download.
* The efforts of the ISPs to maintain stability degrades the service broadband users are paying for thanks to the unprotected content.
It looks to me like if the songs and movies and such would have been properly secured in the first place, this problem wouldn't exist. Maybe the ISPs should be suing the RIAA for the money they have spent fighting the network degradation caused by the downloading of content they failed to secure sufficiently in the first place..
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Let's turn this around the other way.
* The record labels are entrusted with valuable content by the artists and have failed to secure it so that it can't be made freely available over the net.
* The presence of this poorly protected content is now clogging the arteries of the net.
* ISPs are having to dedicate manhours and effort into maintaining the stability of their networks through bandwidth throttling and policy due to this poorly protected content being available for download.
* The efforts of the ISPs to maintain stability degrades the service broadband users are paying for thanks to the unprotected content.
It looks to me like if the songs and movies and such would have been properly secured in the first place, this problem wouldn't exist. Maybe the ISPs should be suing the RIAA for the money they have spent fighting the network degradation caused by the downloading of content they failed to secure sufficiently in the first place..