How NBC wants to both filter and use P2P...

Good feature in Ars Technica: The Pirate Peacock? How NBC wants to both filter and use P2P: Page 2.

"These efforts would include notification of users (Cotton doesn't appear interested in some sort of "sue-'em-all!" strategy), possibly followed by curtailing Internet access. It's a plan that has been mooted in both the UK and France, but all of the solutions would be based on accurate identification of copyrighted work flowing through ISP pipes. That means one thing: ISP deep packet inspection of all P2P traffic, with..."

That sounds just about as scary as it is!