[SoftTalker]

What is Comcast going to do about it? Shut off a paying customer? Not likely.

[jacobgold]

Voluntarily, maybe not, but we can make it a legal requirement.

[inigyou]

Because that worked out so well with file sharing

[jacobgold]

Because this is exactly like file sharing...

[inigyou]

The ways you are asking the government to mutilate the internet are quite similar to the ways the media industries asked the government to mutilate the internet.

[sagarm]

Was requiring telephony providers to clamp down on spam or get blocked "mutilating the phone network?"

[jacobgold]

What I'm calling for is exactly how things are already supposed to work.

The US government should already be infiltrating hacker groups and identifying infected American computers. Internet providers should be informing customers that hackers have compromised their devices.

Characterizing this as "mutilating the internet" is ridiculous.

[inigyou]

You said the ISP should be legally required to shut off their internet.