Most favor warning letters (27%) and a minority favor disconnection (6%).
It seems we always have a new study or survey regarding file-sharing to sink our teeth into each day and today is no exception. UK-based ISPreview has released the results of a new survey of some 472 respondents asking what should be done by ISPs to fight illegal file-sharing on their networks. The results are quite interesting.
Some 20.7% think P2P access should be restricted either by blocking BitTorrent tracker sites and/or throttling connection speeds.
Only 14.8% favored connection speed throttling as punishment, while a majority, 26.9%, said more warning letters was appropriate. A large number of respondents, 22.4%, weren’t sure how ISPs can solve the problem.
Of all the solutions offered to solve the problem of illegal file-sharing, only 6.1% selected the draconian option of permanent disconnection from the Internet by all ISPs, while 5.2% said only from their current ISP. Threatening customers with fines or legal action rounded out the choices with 3.6%.
ISPreview makes the conclusion from the survey that “there is at least some support for imposing targeted P2P restrictions on related websites and or services,” but with so few respondents, 427, do the results really hold enough weight to formulate public policy?
I think not.
Once people realize that allowing businesses to intervene on what should be co snider public roads – the Internet – support for such restrictions is sure to diminish. For once we allow them to dictate content and access restrictions to ISPs where will it end?
jared@zeropaid.com
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If they did proper statistical analysis than 427 respondents can be sufficient to get a clear picture. But without knowing the demographic distribution geographic breakdown etc its hard to gauge the relevance. But it doesn’t usually take all that big a number of respondents to create an accurate statistical picture of a population.
i dont sink so
I’m sure those 6.1% were ultra-hardcore leechers/seeders that were simply making fun of this survey and also so that we have something to laugh about… X)
Who signs this crap?
Let’s have a look at this survey. The article doesn’t mention how many people said “Do nothing” or “Start promoting music online instead” or anything other than different ways to “fight” the people. Let’s see what all the questions really were instead of getting the fact-free interpretation of the results.
As it looks now, this survey was slanted and therefore not trustworthy.