1. Should Internet Service Providers be forced to become copyright police?

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Would the ISPs be effective at stopping copyright infringement?

8. References https://cyber.harvard.edu/property99/liability/main.html