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British Internet Piracy Clamp Down
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by jamessta | July 24, 2008 at 02:07 am
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According to Sky News - British Internet Service Providers will be monitoring clients usage and warning those it beleives to be illeagally downloading Copyrighted media - in a move that would be like car manufactures logging road speeds / gps data with the insiuation this may lead to speeding fines. [Hang on - that might be an interesting idea...]
My irritation with this is the pretense that there is some virtuous zeal in the ISPs attacking this soft target - where is the fevor to eliminate spam and antisocial behaviour that impacts user experience?
The ISPs earn money by promising to deliver a speed or volume of data connection - in the cynical knowledge that almost none of their customers will ever use what they have contracted to deliver - as more and more peope start to increase their actual usage, the ISPs are finding ever more dastardly ways to stop them doing so.
...and don't get me started on 'fair use' policies...
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at 02:50 on July 24th, 2008
jamessta, I like this story. It's good stuff. There are also proposals for charging £30 per year for the use of file sharing sites, we will learn later today what the final agreement is. At the end of the day this means you will have to pay one way or another for illegal downloads.
From The Times.
Illegal downloaders can be detected easily by an enforcement team set up by the BPI, the music trade body. Its monitors log on to websites where music is available to copy, such as LimeWire and BitTorrent, and note the IP addresses of those who use these sites. These identify a unique internet connection, but not the subscriber’s name and address.
The BPI passes on the IP addresses to the relevant internet provider, which in turn links that information to the household and sends the warning letter. The BPI and copyright holders are not given culprits’ names, providing some guarantee that relatively small offenders will not immediately face the risk of civil penalties.
Breach of copyright, by copying music or film via the internet, is a civil offence. All the cases in the UK have been settled before they have come to court, with people paying an average of £2,000 to reach agreement....
Source;http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4387283.ece
at 03:05 on July 24th, 2008
Thanks for your post, Pls use Highlighter tool, Cheers
at 03:25 on July 24th, 2008
Thanks - just installed it, will be sure to use it next time.
at 03:31 on July 24th, 2008
Great, Thanks, Cheers
at 05:05 on July 24th, 2008
jamessta, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 09:49 on July 24th, 2008
jamessta, I like this story. It's good stuff.