If you're a customer of Comcast, Cablevision, Time Warner, Verizon, AT&T and some other Internet service providers you better be a little more discreet about visiting file sharing sites come July 12th. I'm shocked that I can't find a news article on this dated after the middle of March. The ISPs have an agreement with RIAA and MPAA to monitor your IP address for "digital piracy".
From what little I've been able to find it seems that you don't even have to download copyrighted material to receive warning/punishment. As long as your IP visited a known site that host questionable material and had some kind of data transfer you could be receiving a letter in the mail and eventually slowed or terminated service.
http://www.foxnews.c...arting-july-12/
http://www.rawstory....eme-on-july-12/