ISPs snooping for the record companies
Regarding: Web disconnection threat to downloaders.
One word for these muppets: encryption. If ISPs can't determine what is being transmitted, will it come down to how the data is being transmitted? "BitTorrent traffic Sir - we can't tell what is being transmitted, but we assume it's illegal". Will it simply be a case of banning by protocol? Or transfer amount? Or will encrypted data be assumed to be pirated material? "3MB being transmitted using SSL - that's no payment form with credit card details, it must be piracy!" How long will it be before the likes of SSH are branded tools of "hackers" and pirates because they prevent ISPs from peeking at your data?
I love the notion that if you have nothing to hide, why should you need to encrypt your data; we should all just lay down and allow ISPs to monitor any data we send or receive for the sake of the profits of record companies.