Good comeback, I likes the cut of your jib, sah!

Phorm is, in my opinion, a sign of things to come if ISPs have to monitor their customer browsing habits by law. Of course, BT is simply doing it out of it’s own free will, which is totally absurd and will see customer numbers drop rapidly if fully deployed.

But who else will take up the Frankie Howerd baton in the technical world, if not me?!

But, I stand by my comment about modern music. With one or two notable exceptions (Muse spring instantly to mind), modern music is without fail turgid, bland, devoid of talent and character, and offensive to the ear. That may only be my viewpoint, but I stand by it.

And I’m a musician, so I’m allowed.

But I’m with you 110% on the breach of privacy issue. You’re talking about ‘Phorm’ and their ilk, yes?

Music is not in a state of decline in terms of quality!. It’s just simply becoming easier for people to listen to and download without paying for it. Making ISPs track their users’ download habits seems like a good idea to stop piracy, but the fact is, that’s a huge breach of privacy and, if given the tools by law for monitoring activities, both ISPs and third-parties could abuse these in order to target users with advertising based on what websites they go on to and what they download, like having Ad-ware that’s not actually on your computer. Remember, torrent websites track all sorts of files, legal and not, so how music-label companies expect ISPs to monitor their download habits just for that purpose is beyond me. Basically, they want to sit back and let internet watchdogs and internet service providers do all the work.