AT&T threatens to disconnect users accused of copyright infringement

Yes, legally your company may be in the clear, but morally speaking what the ISPs are doing are still a bucket of crap, and defending them doesn’t make you look much better.

That Network you ‘own’? Are beneficiaries of huge, ongoing, public subsidies and right of way accesses that let you lay wires in private property, and give you a permanent leg up against potential competitors (if I want to start my own cable company, there’s no way I’m going to be able to lay all the wires required!). In most places, you’re lucky if you have two options for Internet service: One phone company, one cable company. I personally think something is owed to the public in exchange for this enforced monopoly. Like, not colluding in a not-legally-required scheme that allows you to permanently cut off what is pretty much an essential service for participation in 21st century life, just because somebody accuses them of copyright infringement, twice, or somebody hacks their wireless, twice.