Music industry to take on ISPs on piracy

The Guardian is reporting that the music industry is ganging up on the ISPs in their attempt to tackle Internet piracy (largely file sharing over P2P networks).

Armed with the Gowers report, which suggested that ISPs need to come to an agreement with the music industry or face government regulation, the industry is not surprisingly starting with targeting the big boys such as BT, Tiscali and NTL.

Surely the ISP is just acting as the carrier here - why is it any of their problem what an end customer chooses to distribute over their network? The standard position of requiring a court order to divulge customer details is completely appropriate.