bringing isps into the game

Although it's occurring "across the pond", this story over at The Register alarmed me. Apparently, the European versions of the RIAA and MPAA (music and movie industries, people) have kindly drafted a new "code of conduct" agreement they feel ISPs should have all customers sign. Among other things, it states that your identity should be freely available, your ISP can and should monitor everything going over your connection, and people should be forcibly discouraged from "consuming excessive amounts of bandwidth where such consumption is a good indicator of infringing activities." Or, you know, using a webcam. Or VoIP telephony. Or distributing a Linux distro over BitTorrent. Whatever. You're all pirates.