Should Internet Service Providers be forced to become copyright police?

Background Because of the large amount of copyright infringement and piracy many companies are reaching and claiming that ISPs should be responsible for policing copyrights. But these ISPs (Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, etc.) claim that copyright infringement is not their problem or their responsibility. In fact, the ISPs argument that they are nothing but dumb pipes has been keeping them safe from copyright lawsuits since piracy on the internet began.

ISP Copyright Police Already in Action Australia's Federal Court took a case that outlined this issue and force Australia's largest ISPs to block torrent sites. U.K. attempted to set up a system of shared responsibilities where the ISPs would police copyrights and report users.

How ISPs deal with Infringement? Inform users when the are downloading illegally Report incidents to content creators who will get court orders Ban the user Block sites

Potential Hazards Could be giving ISPs too much control Blacklisting sites like YouTube or Reddit Could lead to a cautious and conservative internet Inconsistencies between ISPs Could lead to violations of rights

Analysis When it comes down to it, content creators want to protect their proper so the they can make a profit from it. So if ISPs are force to become copyright police it prevents companies from losing money due to copyright infringement. "Their revenue bases depend on legitimate operations of their networks and more and more they're finding their networks crowded with infringed material, bandwidth space being crowded out,” , Dan Glickman from MPAA Infringement = crowded bandwidth= harder to find ligitiment content= less revenue for creator; therefore, ISPs should become copyright police

Would the ISPs be effective at stopping copyright infringement?

References https://cyber.harvard.edu/property99/liability/main.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbusch/2012/03/14/the-billion-dollar-question-when-should-internet-providers-be-liable-for-copyright-infringement/#7071e73a12e9 https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/16549/report-suggests-isps-have-a-moral-duty-to-police-the-internet/ http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30171783-The-ISPs-are-not-the-Copyright-Police http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2015/09/24/imagine-if-isps-were-responsible-for-all-that-copyright-infringement/ http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/87680