>Essentially, the recording industry just showed that a jury will buy its argument that an ISP should be held liable for failing to kick a music pirate off its network.<p>This will end badly for you and me. I suspect there will be large groups of people who are unable to get internet access because they were suspected of some copyright violation by the ISPs, who are now liable and aren't required to be fair or show evidence, or even let the accused present evidence. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually, entire geographic areas will be cancelled from internet services just because of the risk.<p>ISPs will now have to deal with the fact that a ~$100 a month subscription can now risk billions of dollars. They're not going to take any risks with any subscribers. They're also going to heavily scan all network traffic applying AI network analysis to find any potential offenders and cut them off.<p>I can see how this could potentially kill the internet as we know it, at least in the US.