. It's just a total mess, but I imagine that digital theft will be increasingly policed, and increasingly more ably policed, and the idea of digital theft will be a much more broadly understood crime by the mainstream in the not-too-distant future. It's inevitable.
"They" are already writing the software to do this and they will make the ISPs responsible in some way or other - there's too much money at stake for some to not get the blame. The guys at our local ISP know who's doing what and when and put heavy users on what they call "the naughty pipe" so it's not that impossible to police.
m
