Interesting warning regarding filesharing

[Garth Meisel]

I don't remember where I heard something that lies within this last post about 
ISP's reporting the users to the authorities.  Some ISP's were reporting the 
IP's, bandwidth used, and providing names of users to the authorities.  
Somewhere down the road someone said "Invasion of privacy" or some other 
legitimate right and now some ISP's have either had to rewrite their customer 
contracts but some have outright refused to co-operate with the authorities.  
I wish memory served me better but this is all I can remember.  In my 
paranoid side I'm thinking the authorities may have asked the ISP's to 
actually specifically monitor and or PIPE the same usage of a certain 
customer to them thus why the  argument.  That without a doubt cannot be 
legal in any way shape or form no matter who the authority is SO LONG as the 
activity is not TERRORIST related but this also a new area without much 
precedent thus far.    
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