I think it's a pretty good difference. Instead of being sued for a bajillion-one dollars and twenty-seven cents by the MPAA, now you get a warning.

If anything I think it shows the MPAA/RIAA growing up (but just a little bit)

I want to say compliance is the wrong word here, but I get the feeling ISPs were pressured into this by both the RIAA/MPAA and the current adminstration. There's just something about this that yells "backroom meetings and threats".

I want to see how many people switch ISPs in the next year. They're either going to go the VPN route or choose a different provider. This stops nothing (like we all know, no need for me to say it)

I don't see why this would involve any pressure. This agreement is in the best interests of ISPs and only helps their bottom line while requiring they do virtually zero work (the DBA has to add another row to the subscriber table, oh noes!)

Actually, ISP DBAs are probably [censored]ing about this, which is why it didn't go live back in may

Myes, which has always made me laugh because in the middle of a big economical crisis while all other businesses are experiencing losses or at least significantly decreased profits, all the "entertainment industry" companies are experiencing major profit increases and pretty much bathe in money. Where is that destruction they're talking about? Piracy is doing nothing to them (not to say that piracy is ok, just that it's not the horrible problem they make it out to be).

Their problem is that they've realised that with the development of Internet publisher companies have become an unneeded middleman (I've heard of multiple examples of people who've decided to publish their material as free downloads and accept donations as a form of financing and they end up turning much higher profit than anything they could ever hope for by going through a publisher) so they want to choke that.

Anonymous?

But anyways, so appearently this won't really have much effect, as it only keep track on P2P downloading of torrents, correct? What if people download stuff that isn't in torrent form or use a VPN, what then?
Much of an anti-piracy program.