uh oh Japan's no more torrents plan

Seriously you can't stop the piracy. Yeah go detect torrent clients (dunno how though since it doesn't have a fixed port to begin with. This basically makes the government use an insane amount of traffic to scan everything.

Then you can always use encryption. and even beyond that there are like 20 different methods out there which they can't all regulate (no I ain't gonna name them... google is your friend. Besides that why help the bad man ;) )

The whole problem at the moment is that consumers get faster and faster connection yet the backbones can't be rolled out that fast. However ISP's can regulate their outgoing data rate and most of all there are case studies to check it on ISP basis first called P4P.

Ok the chances that it will be implemented eventually is small because if ISP's would use it they probably will get mass claims from the RIAA, MIAA or any other organisation for the music/movie industry in their country, because it would promote P2P usage in their eyes.

Detecting torrent clients is simple without any encryption. It's made difficult to find by Protocol header encrypt and Message stream encryption/Protocol encryption. Anyone can change a port. My SSH server doesn't run on port 22, so it can bypass any PORT protection on, say, a proxy server. And encryption isn't something that's too hard to regulate, ISPs can stop encrypted traffic should they wish. Besides, what ISP would be looking on a hentai website for information on encryption when Google and encryption svns would be much better for the bleeding edge of encryption standards.

P4P is a service ISPs can implement to 'push' people on the same torrent who happen to be close in the network rather than on the other side of the world [which would be a waste of resources for the ISP]. Well, that's what I get from the resources on it.

They don't have to advertise the service, and copyright protection agencies wouldn't have a problem because they could comeback with "We're not doing it to further illegal transfers, we are facilitating distribution of open-source programs and other copyright-free resources. Take it up with [xxx] consumer, or ask us to take his service off"

Besides, when big companies utilities the technology, no-one tries to argue.

Hey guys, remember when PirateBay got shut down but almost immediately was reborn from its ashes? People will always get what they want.

Opinionated article, written by a speculator, rather than direct source.

Also: Torrents are only safe in large numbers (peers in the hundreds) even record companies can get 15 people. ISPs, who handle the data firsthand would have no difficulty in enforcing such actions. The best we could hope for is diversion within the market and a boycott, organized or otherwise.

Well, I think the argument of the ISP's abandoning their plan due to customers leaving etc is pretty void as in the end, you aren't using the internet exclusively for downloading / uploading on p2p networks etc, but for alot of other things aswell, so in the end the only question is, how far they are allowed to push their actions within the law.
E.g. the so called "Datenschutzgesetz" - data protection law in Germany is close to useless as you can circumvent it relatively easily and the data of the inhabitants is ridiculously easy to get by for authorities etc.
However, I think it is just the tip of the iceberg with japan etc. As an example I could name TDC (a danish provider) blocking thepiratebay etc.