there are already enough “laws” that take away most of our freedoms. the internet is one of our last refuges, we cant let it go down because of the greedy c***s.

anarchy against these losers i say.

How exactly did AFACT “trick” them into breaking the law?

I suggest you research the word “entrapment” before you use it in a sentence again.

Try using Miro to find HD internet TV and see the size of the files which are in the range of 50~200 megabytes on average.

Besides that you can have people trying to cure cancer transmitting a lot of data, educational institutions use a lot of bandwidth so do small business and people using cloud solutions backup in physical different regions to prevent natural catastrophe’s from destroying important data and the list could go on, none of this will be possible in the U.K.

But really, there is no such thing as ‘authorised copyright infringement’. If an agency that owns the copyrights, say AFACT, authorises someone to download or upload their stuff it is not, nor can it ever be argued that it is, infringement! If iiNet had disconnected that guy they would’ve been blowing off an innocent customer. Furthermore, if he uploaded a file with authorisation from the copyright holder then the download by the guy at the other end was no more illegal than buying music from a store instead of getting it straight from the label.

If you discount the downloading of large files i.e : a couple of gig etc at a time where you need a fast connection of upwards of 10 – 20 meg then what do we or anyone else actually need these high bandwidth connections for ?

does anyone actually know of anything outside maybe a torrent type file that actually needs that speed ?

most tv streams across the net are what maybe 3 meg! most online games, well a whole family could use a 10 meg…so all those 40, 50, 100, 200 meg deals become useless as we wouldnt need them ;)

Also this crap they are trying to bring in around various parts of europe, 3 strikes n ya out! have the isp’s even realised how much that is in losses to their customer client lists ? say your on the virgin 50 meg in the uk n you pay £50 per month….times that by thousands of people in the worst case scenario, just look at the ACS letters from a few weeks back and it wouldnt be that much of a jump…and that would just be virgin, what about the other isps out there who would suddenly lose internet customers due to them being banned from the net…so soon we would all be on 2meg connections and a customer base of around 100 people lol

I don’t actually think these internet companies have added it up and thought about how much they would lose if these anti-torrent types got their own way.

Just my 10 cents but think about it!

they need to understand they are not the gate keepers anymore, everyone can become an artist and a creator now a days, thanks to truly the greatest invention.

Therefore all plans over 10GB would be totally ignored which would massacre ISP profits, shutting them down, putting back to a few major players who will monopolise (again) and RIP the general public off instead…

In the corporate world its the end user and the employee who gets screwed… why should it be any different for an artist to a blue collar worker doing $260 p/h an hour work but getting $20 p/h from the company.

Just because the Internet allows us to get a little back they wanna take it away. F**K you AFACT, MPAA etc..

You cant accuse someone of stealing something that hasnt been stolen in the first place and if its still there lol =/

I live in Aus and AFART are a joke no debating/arguing lol and I dont know what a list of IPs actually proves without evidence to the contrary If I was a judge they are just Numbers and any information brought before a (reasonable non-biased) court of law such as IPs should be ruled in-admissable without evidence of C.I. — which is impossible

They are TorrentTerrorists =P lol

and the filtering scheme with end up down the drain just like NetAlert(Google) Australia, NZ, and the US need better Data Protection laws like in the EU

So what did conroy do? Denied them access from the trial lol, it’s good iinet stands up every now and again, but a little more thought into their plan would be wise.