On a more practical/technical level, I'm interested in how French ISPs that worked on the plan to implement it on their networks?
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/conferen/albanel/rapportol ivennes231107.pdf I couldn't get a good copy from that URL but I did manage to get one from <http://www.fluctuat.net/articles/IMG/pdf/rapport-olivennes.pdf> First, they start out by saying on page 12 that they are persuaded that stronger disincentives for pirating content have to be organised in a realistic and pragmatic way. There is no unique solution whose success is assured. It is an illusion to consider that all forms of piracy on the Internet can be stopped. Nevertheless it is necessary to communicate to the younger members of the public that free (as in beer) and illegal costlessness has a cost. (Note that French has a word meaning costlessness that is usually translated as free). They go on to talk about a variety of technical measures which they recognize pirates can pervert. They want to make it harder to accidentally pirate stuff. They talk about go after the uploader of content, not the downloader. Elsewhere in the document they get agreement from the industry to change their behavior as well, such as watermarking content, which presumably makes it easier to filter pirated content but leave the Linux ISO torrents alone. Under filtering of sites and protocols they mention that this can be legally possible in certain specific circumstances. Under filtering of files they talk about servers, where ISPs already will delete or block downloads of pirated files. The appendices (annexes) go into more technical details. I didn't read all 44 pages of this report but it is fairly balanced and they clearly talked to ISPs as well as content owners. I get the sense that a lot of this is alread best practices but is probably not all that well documented in the sense that there isn't a "Piracy Prevention Best Practices" document that most ISPs try to adhere to. If someone wanted to produce such a document, extracting the technical bits from this report would make a reasonable working draft. Given that operationally, there are no magic bullets for most things, we have to make do with a set of best practices, each of which deals with one aspect of the problem. I wonder why we don't see more support for documenting these best practices through something like this wiki http://bestpractices.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page which was set up by a NANOG member a while back. --Michael Dillon