This just shows how out of touch the UK govt is. I wonder which Labour sponser lobbied for this. The government assume this is a hardcore minority. I'm not an illegal filesharer, but I sure know a lot people that do. I don't think it's a small minority. Questions...<p>- How do you define 'illegal fileshare'? Based on the network used? The content of the file?<p>- How would this be implemented? Would the ISP do the blocking?<p>- What's to stop the 'criminal' from using a wifi connection elsewhere?<p>- What effect does this have on the neutrality of the net in the UK?<p>(Sorry, posted this comment on another thread before seeing this)
Encryption will make this moot very soon.
In fact routine encryption will confound many attempts to post-fit content control into the existing internet. For instance, deep-sniffing routers that prefer ATT traffic over Vonage, or prefer one ISP's subscribers' traffic over another because of the rate they pay.