Will ISPs Be Driven To Spy On Their Customers?

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In regards to the new 'voluntary' graduated response deal (http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-riaa-major-isps-preparing-graduated-response-to-piracy-110623/) (where no one really knows how ISPs will track and accuse customers of copyright infringement), according to CNN, it may be the ISP directly spying on their customers (http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/06/opinion/rushkoff-online-monitoring/index.html). 'But now that they're free from individual blame, there's also the strong possibility that the ISPs will be doing the data monitoring directly. That's a much bigger deal. So instead of reaching out to the Internet to track down illegally flowing bits of their movies, the studios will sit back while ISP's "sniff" the packets of data coming to and from their customers' computers.' This could be a problem (http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-07-07d/Americas_Broad_Band_Crisis_Worsens_with_the_Prospe ct_of_Spying_ISPs.html) for people who use U.S.-based internet services. If the U.S. wants to be an internet savvy country, they still need the competition in the marketplace that's always been missing, and a digital bill of rights that isn't a sneaky anti-piracy measure (http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-06-13a/The_Digital_Bill_of_Rights_is_a_sneaky_antipiracy_ bill.html).
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