I think you are missing the point on why ISP's are blocking the torrents. It has nothing to do with illegal content, and all about cutting their costs on bandwidth. Why buy big pipes when you can squeeze all your costumers in smaller cheaper ones? They act on the fact that most people don't use their full bandwidth all the time, except for those damn bit torrent users *smile*
If they were to take upon themselfs the enforcement of legal content, setting aside the privacy concerns, they would have to figure out how to block child porn, movies, songs... and some of those contents are actually what make them sell broadband in the first place.
And about the privacy, if they are openning up my packets up in the application level, what guarantees do I have that they will just look the other way when I access my home banking or purchase something with a credit card?
There is no moral or legal grounds for blocking, perhaps except for places like China and US *cough*
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I think you are missing the point on why ISP's are blocking the torrents. It has nothing to do with illegal content, and all about cutting their costs on bandwidth. Why buy big pipes when you can squeeze all your costumers in smaller cheaper ones? They act on the fact that most people don't use their full bandwidth all the time, except for those damn bit torrent users *smile*
If they were to take upon themselfs the enforcement of legal content, setting aside the privacy concerns, they would have to figure out how to block child porn, movies, songs... and some of those contents are actually what make them sell broadband in the first place.
And about the privacy, if they are openning up my packets up in the application level, what guarantees do I have that they will just look the other way when I access my home banking or purchase something with a credit card?
There is no moral or legal grounds for blocking, perhaps except for places like China and US *cough*