Your Internet service provider will be able to identify whether you are downloading illegal contents or not. If you are found guilty, there will be pop-up windows or email messages warning that you have violated the law. If you continue downloading the illegal contents, your Web connection will be made slower than ever as snail until you contact your ISP for clarification or, if you have enough time and resources, you may take an illegal action to suit your ISP.
There are several ISP and production houses that have joined this agreement. Among them are Verizon Communications Inc. and Film & Television Alliance. Of course this new agreement will benefit the entertainment workers who have worked hard to produce your entertainment media. It will also give the benefit – money profit – for the ISP too. The problem is how is the mechanism to consider whether or not you have violated the copyright law.
It is clear that slowing down the connection of alleged offender’s Web connection will mean a violation of the rights on Internet. Everybody has a right to have an Internet connection as long as they can afford it, right? Now, if your connection is slowed down because your ISP considers you had broken the law, what is the proof for that allegation?
The allegation is of course based on the data recorded by your ISP. But is the data legal? Is it stipulated in your contract with your ISP? Yes, may be it is. But the old contract must have not yet included that. It means that if tomorrow morning your Internet connection walks like a snail and you receive warning email message, you are considered an offender – but you are not guilty because the legal base for slowing down connection is not yet stipulated in your contract.
The allegation will not be fair and just also because it has not yet tested in the court. Without the court consent that agrees that you have done wrong, such slowing down the connection will be unlawful business.
