Copyright Math and Other Things

So recently I've heard of copyright math and the absurdity of the fines that go with it. For example the fine for only one instance of copyright infringement is $150,000 and no that isn't supposed to be a decimal point. Imagine if all parts of life did that with their product, you take a picture of a wedding dress from a designer, oops that's $10,000 in stolen goods right there. What if they started doing this with leaks from tech companies, what if simply seeing news that was supposed to be kept secret became a $5,000 offence. I'm just saying this doesn't seem like its going to end well, and I'm hoping that Google (including YouTube), Facebook, Firefox, and some of the other big name sites go dark in protest of whats coming next.

It turns out that the big ISP's have decided to spy on our activity starting July 12th, and will turn of or slow down the connection for those they find to be infringing on copyrights. Now, I wish I knew what they planned on using for criteria and how they plan on making sure that it was payed for or not, but that's just how its going. That's what scares me the most though, the criteria... Will they be shutting down connections for people who have high download rates, or do they have a far more sophisticated way of sifting through all of the downloads for each person. Here's hoping they don't shut down people who use iTunes or play online multi-player games a lot.