Oh good god people, learn to read
@about half the commenters
"the BPI can't say p2p is illegal"
they didn't
"the BPI can't tell us to uninstall my P2P software"
they didn't, thay told you to stop sharing copyrighted files and recommend uninstalling as a way to achieve that
"so I should stop downloading linux now? lulz"
if someone gets one of these letters that mentions a linux iso I will be highly amused and all the chickens in the country will be needed to supply the egg BT and the BPI would be applying to their faces. but I doubt it
"they're reading my packets!"
it even mentions in the article why interception is not needed
"they should change their business model"
your options are buy from them, or boycott. Moaning about how crap their business is while simultaneously stealing their stuff is a bit hipocritical
"it'll never stand up in court"
which is why it'll never _get_ to a court. it's an AUP violation, not a legal takedown
"i depend on my internet access"
then I would make sure it's used responsibly. drink-drive and you can lose your license, whether you need it for your job or not. let your brother / SO / sprogs whore your internet connection, expect to reap what has been sown...
"the person could be sending unrelated crap"
which is why bittorrent has error correction built in, to stop people poisoning the torrent. assuming they download the complete thing and listen to some of it, that is.
which leads on to...
"how good is their evidence?"
Good point. If it's anything like the RIAA's it's laughable. One assumes they have proper procedures and BT have vetted them...*chokes trying to restrain laughter*
But, again, you're being kicked off your ISP. Not a helluva lot you can do about it, really, unless you're rich and like taking imagined insults out of proportion.
Thanks to the blessed few trying to inject sanity into this