Will the internet be filtered/censored in the future?

[HoreTore]

Believe it or not but there are legal ways to use a 10mb connection

Yes, but a big portion of an ISP's 10mbit customers are using it to download illegal stuff. If they cut them out, they will lose millions.

[Husar]

Yes, but a big portion of an ISP's 10mbit customers are using it to download illegal stuff. If they cut them out, they will lose millions.

And a big portion of bankrobbers do want to buy Ferraris and support our economy, if we're going to cut them out....

They don't even want to cut them out, just make them download aother things with a bit of well-meant decision help.

[HoreTore]

Everyone else might object, but Fiat probably won't mind who they're making millions off...

So I don't really see why ISP's would want to care about this.

[Husar]

Everyone else might object, but Fiat probably won't mind who they're making millions off...

Ever tried paying them with money you printed yourself then?

[HoreTore]

Ever tried paying them with money you printed yourself then?

As you can't ever pay an ISP in cash, fake or not, that's got nothing to do with it, now does it?

[Husar]

As you can't ever pay an ISP in cash, fake or not, that's got nothing to do with it, now does it?

I meant the car manufacturer, but then I forgot my point sometime yesterday so I guess we settle this with you being an evil pirate and me being a naive good guy.

[drone]

Tim Wu from Slate.com, summed up my thoughts about AT&T's actions pretty well. What are they doing?
Has AT&T Lost Its Mind?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

AT&T's new strategy reverses that position and exposes it to so much potential liability that adopting it would arguably violate AT&T's fiduciary duty to its shareholders. Today, in its daily Internet operations, AT&T is shielded by a federal law that provides a powerful immunity to copyright infringement. The Bells know the law well: They wrote and pushed it through Congress in 1998, collectively spending six years and millions of dollars in lobbying fees to make sure there would be no liability for "Transitory Digital Network Communications"—content AT&T carries over the Internet. And that's why the recording industry sued Napster and Grokster, not AT&T or Verizon, when the great music wars began in the early 2000s.

Here's the kicker: To maintain that immunity, AT&T must transmit data "without selection of the material by the service provider" and "without modification of its content." Once AT&T gets in the business of picking and choosing what content travels over its network, while the law is not entirely clear, it runs a serious risk of losing its all-important immunity. An Internet provider voluntarily giving up copyright immunity is like an astronaut on the moon taking off his space suit. As the world's largest gatekeeper, AT&T would immediately become the world's largest target for copyright infringement lawsuits.