Cutting ties with record sellers and DIY selling should be the first move.

I went to the US these days and you can find several open wireless connections wherever you go. Even in the neighborhood I stayed, with people I know, I could find several unsecured spots. I mean, you can’t just go and disconnect a person because you saw the IP somewhere, there are several factors that make it impossible to prove whether it was that person downloading or not.

But as I said and the ISP above said, the problem could be solved by changing the way MAFIAA and merry friends act, by working together with the consumers they are currently attacking…

Well, they are idiots so they’ll only see their mistakes in the future, just like Nokia noticed years after they couldn’t use mass production models everywhere and got their butts kicked in the US ;D

There are so many problems with this.

1) You don’t need to upload anything to download things off Usenet/Direct Connect/HTTP sites/FTP servers/etc

Only torrents would be effected.

2) This can only be applied to residential users, as servers in datacenters upload a LOT more than they download.
If that’s the case, an easy way to get around your problem is to rent a seedbox for £5 a month, and let the server do all the torrenting. Once it’s downloaded to the seedbox, download it via http from your server and you’re done.

The real problem with trying to prosecute people who do naughty things on the internet is that:
a) An IP doesn’t relate to an individual or even an individual PC.

b) Why should I be responsible for the things that are sent to my IP address? I don’t own the internet, i don’t even own the cable in my house – the ISP owns it. I literally own nothing, but they want me to take all the responsibility? Get real.