Peter N

warescouse.

I agree that existing laws should cover many aspects of the problem but they are open to interpretation and that requires case-law decisions which can only happen after the system is in use.

If you look at the laws regarding interferring with the mail, for example, you'll see that those laws apply to the mail carriers as much as they do to anyone else but there are also separate conditions in the acts that specifically apply to the postal service and their employees.

It is this level of legislation that is required - unambiguous and designed specifically to avoid the ISPs simply designing something that isn't quite DPI and getting around the law.