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Roland Perry wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if you are being pedant/naive about the copyright law, or
> trying to spell out a potential corner case.

Pedant - hopefully.  And corner case.  

> 
> A slight bell is ringing, however; such a music-spotting exercise must
> obviously exclude those transfers immediately in conjunction to a legal
> [paid for] download from an authorised seller.

Given, it would be easy enough to white-list authorised sources. 

Forgetting the corner case argument, I think any such monitoring would be
fundamentally wrong.  ISPs are not and should not act in this way.  First
copyright, what next?

James Firth