You can't keep your guests from misbehaving (and for the most part you don't care to), but if a guest illegally downloads copyrighted material you could find yourself with no Internet access - and still paying the bill.
Simple firewalls and other methods like using a filtered DNS service won't fix the biggest copyright problem - Peer to Peer networks. Anyone can find and download copyrighted music and movies and many people now do from places other than their homes so that they aren't held responsible, fined or jailed.
Unfortunately, your hotel is that 'other place'.
Your Internet service provider can terminate your Internet service with no notice and may even continue to bill you. You can prevent guests from using Peer to Peer networks like Bit Torrent with a firewall that can stop Peer to Peer traffic. There aren't many of them, but our guests have been well served by Checkpoint's line of small office firewalls. For as little as $199, it's effective protection.
Yes, once in a while a guest will complain that he can't do something that it 'absolutely vital for his job', but the truth is 99% of all traffic on Bit Torrent is for copyrighted material, as reported just this morning:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/01/student_torrent_survey/
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