Comments on: NBC to feds: Urge ISPs to police piracy

Amidst thousands of comments about whether Net neutrality rules are needed, media conglomerate urges FCC to stress that broadband providers must fight transfer of copyrighted works.

[ethana2]

The model is wrong.

Selling content by the copy doesn't work. It is artificial scarcity, and trying to make it work slows down progress, and takes away our freedoms. Put an extra tax on broadband to renumerate the industry, abolish DRM, and piracy will disappear. Which is harder to track down, teenagers or tax evaders? The fact of the matter is that in this day and age, there is no legitimate reason for intellectual goods to be so restricted.

Everyone pays money, everyone has access to everything intangible. Culture becomes rich and beautiful. It can work. What the MaFIAA don't seem to realize is that their business model can't.

[georgiarat]

Piracy

I firmly oppose the theft of music, movies, etc by any means.
However, it greatly concerns me when there is pressure by the
content providers on the ISP's to police the actions of its users.
While this might be argued a legitimate reason it is not hard to
imagine how the next demand might not be quite and clear nor
the next nor the one after that.

[gsmiller88]

I really don't know how they can do this...

I mean, this would be like the government going through every
single letter in the mail to check for scams. These companies just
need to shut the hell up already.