Originally Posted by kane

Typically I am against regulation, especially when it comes to the internet, but I think they should be allowed to put something in place where a company could show some kind of proof that a site is illegally posting its music/movies or whatever and the ISPs or hosts could just block access to that site. In many of the cases it would be pretty easy. You could got to your favorite torrent site and see that they have several torrents up that allow people to download movies that are still only available in the theater so you know they are doing it illegally and the site either comes down or access to it is shut off.

Obviously it is a slippery slope so there would have to be some kind of safety valves in place to make sure their wasn't abuse of the system.

I have been reading that a lot of ISPs are starting to limit the amount of downloads people can make (bandwidth wise) because some nodes get heavy torrent traders on them and it bogs it down for all the other users. So the solution could simply come from the ISPs who are trying to curb their cost cutting off access to these types of sites or making people pay more to get access to them.