It does not take a leap of the imagination to see how ordinary, law-abiding citizens might accidently be affected. Here is a hypothetical scenario of how things might play out.
People pirating music will be caught. These people will start encrypting their web-traffic to avoid getting caught in the future. Then coders like me who use SSH/SFTP heavily will be flagged as pirates too. Then my internet will be cut off.
Quite a while ago my ISP threatened to shut off my Internet as I had a port open for SSH. I suggested that they should be more concerned that they had admitted to either scanning my system without permission or snooping on my traffic.
That was enough to end that. Unfortunately I don't think asserting an expectation of privacy is enough anymore.
They might get a lot of false positives for people who just stream videos a lot from the web or something. But I think I know how they will propose to "solve" this later on. They will just "allow" content websites to enter a "whitelist", and as soon as that list gets big enough, just throttle everything else.
> People pirating music will be caught. These people will start encrypting their web-traffic to avoid getting caught in the future.
Which won't really help since they're being tracked by their peers, I don't think anyone is wiretapping random Internet users' connections to bust them for piracy.
I'm assuming he means hiding behind a VPN, which encrypts traffic and masks your IP. If enough people start using them, I suppose they'll be the next to feel the heat from the media-companies.
People pirating music will be caught. These people will start encrypting their web-traffic to avoid getting caught in the future. Then coders like me who use SSH/SFTP heavily will be flagged as pirates too. Then my internet will be cut off.