I find this quite scary. As with all things like this it starts in degrees. Today it's an annoying warning and "educational materials". A few years from now,

I find this quite scary. As with all things like this it starts in degrees. Today it's an annoying warning and "educational materials". A few years from now, when warning aren't enough and people are used to them, it'll be disconnection, back to ham-fisted legal blackmail, or even more creative and ridiculous punishments for pushing electrons. The worst part is that the ISPs are also in many cases the content creators too. Therefore they have a financial incentive to snoop on their networks, invade people's privacy, and basically be a privatized big brother. Better not write an email about downloading files, because your ISP might read it and disconnect you! I don't know if having the ISPs in the same bed as content creators is a monopoly or not, but it's certainly not in the public's best interest. Every day where I read an increasingly outrageous story about ISP/government internet snooping and control makes me want to switch gears and dedicate my work to internet privacy and distributedness.