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Democratic?
12/02/2008 08:24
Can authorities get away with something like that? You get a warning if you are SUSPECTED of downloading something. What if you are not in fact downloading anything illicit? There is no trial to prove your guilt. They then simply suspend you, again with no trial...
Nice one. Hopefully the poms don't let this one slide. - Little Brother |
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Rofl
12/02/2008 08:25
"if they were suspected of illegally downloading"
So just send a email to every single email address in the world seeing that they don't need proof, so everyone starts on strike 1.... - Skande |
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Usual knee-jerk reactions by polticians
12/02/2008 08:35
to industry pressure (and favour?) on issues they have zero understanding of.And deafening silence from many in the legal fraternity there (UK). There's an excellent fella in the US(Lauren Weinstein)who started an organisation called PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) at http://www.pfir.org... There's a growing groundswell of resistance to arbitrary measures such as those in the article. Note to Big Bruvver:Genuine pirates will ALWAYS find a way.And the rest will suffer ... sigh. - Cynicus |
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Charged, or suspected?
12/02/2008 08:46
I assume that this will go through a criminal court... to be banned from using the net because your ISP thinks the recordings you uploaded of your kid singing is a pirated work doesn't seem fair... (yes, some ISPs think anything ending .mp3 must be pirated!) Not to mention fair use issues. - CJ |
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Draconian measures
12/02/2008 09:25
The music industry especialy has always made a huge fuss about this and made many attempts to do stuff like this. So far they have not succeeded. I feel for the artists not getting their pay due to piracy but also feel they have no right to deny people access to something as usefull as the internet becuase of piracy. If they pirate and you can prove it, lay charges! End of story. - Michael |
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it's my bandwidth...
12/02/2008 11:57
well seeing as I already paid for my bandwidth before using it, I reckon I'll download whatever's available...why don't these "so-called" authorities rather focus their energy on the sites making these "illegal" content available? It will be much cheaper AND easier for them...just goes to show how stupid these people are...1 website offering a peer2peer service...1million people using it...instead of just closing down the site (remember napster?) they want to go after the people using it.IDIOTS! - downloader |
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