What’s more, it is unlikely to have any effect on file-sharing, as is evident when you look at Sweden as a case study, where file-sharing has risen since their anti-piracy laws, just now it is encrypted. Instead the record companies who wrote this Act should be focusing on live music promotion as their primary revenue stream rather than protecting an old, out-dated business model.

For my blog on the implications of the DEB please go to http://bit.ly/a5rnUk. Cheers.

This week has been dominated by news stories around the imminent UK Digital Economy Bill. Here are some of the top news stories surrounding the Bill: How will the Digital Economy Bill impact UK businesses? – Financialadvice.co.uk Digital Economy …

http://digg.com/tech_news/Digital_Economy_Bill_Passes_File_Sharing_Ends_Soon

not sure how possible it is off the top off my head tho.

Let the Music and movie companies, and the creeps in parliament beware.

Also, voters in UK can most importantly answer to this affront by parliamentarians with their fingers – by voting for the opposition. Or even boycotting the elections if both parties are rubbish. Or even vote for the pirate party.

Excuse us if we don’t care about what some corporate pig that don’t know about how the internet works thinks.

That is the unbreakable rule of a civilized society. If you break this ancient and hallowed rule and allow them to live after this, you will never have anything approaching a free society again.

-oh wait, they actually did it???

April Fools Day was a last week…

Rubbish. They will lose money.

Darn movies ain’t worth the watch anyway.

Only the lawyers make money out of this stuff. And they don’t care.

They are playing both sides against the middle using the law.

I say it’s time for a rewrite……..

DEB was created by an unelected minister of an unelected government.

WTF? Democracy FAIL.

Who do I know that can afford ton own it all? no one. most people I know would have given up on music and television if it wasn’t for the ability to share, and buy when possible. Share when it’s the only way to make it accesssible. Hell piracy can be one of the only ways I have to keep up witht the world!

These events are none different from any in the uk’s sleezy past. In fact this is quite minor, any of you that were hoping the uk might pave the way. I am sorry, but even if we didn’t asuck up to the us so much, we are obsessed with tax and control…we were never gonna be leaders for sharing.

As fopr the people, well this has given me an attitude adjustment. I dotn know which way this war will end, I think maybe unfavourable for us. “the pirates” which in MOST CASES also means “the customers” as we tend to be both. The idea of a “pirate” is quite pathetic . we are all pirates give or take.

Nope the proper british response to this is:

Fuck you! No more compromise, MORE funding to isohunt. MORE DOWNLOADIN|G i will max out every connection I can get my hands on. I will use every technical advantage I have and I WILL not back down. No longer open to debate, if law is not important to talk about then fine we wont talk we will fight.

I will download what I do not need to , I will jam up ther lines. And i will still circulate FREE copies of the thingsd my friends and I are unable to afford so we may at least share the experiences together. And that will never EVER change. Unless you are prepared to copyright the vary earth we live on.

To my fellow CONSUMERS in the uk, carry on. dont be phased. just be protected. But next time you see that blu ray in asda or tesco..before tyou pick it up to pay your hard earned money. Think about this and if you really want to part with it.

I will be holding my money BACK for a while as i see how this pans out, we could cost them a LOT of money if we worked together.

What I really dont understand is why the rules of the whole world are chqanging just because hollywood got itsel;f all upset. I dont give a shit about holluywood like they haven’t about anyone outside the us for thier existence..so why cant they fuck off back where they came from(no offense to us citizens not about you).

I wish I lived in spain LOL .

“Wikipedia has blocked the Department’s IP address for creating or amending entries,” Bradshaw notes. “Information on the Wikipedia site indicates that this has occurred because it has identified the IP address as being shared by many users.”

Source – http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/172614/department-of-health-banned-from-wikipedia

So Bradshaw knows several computers can be behind one IP address yet he still pushes this through as though the IP address owner is responsible for everything on that address

does OneSwarm F2F work in this case as its the isp who are seeing what we download will it stop that if so I will download it now

Believe the lie
The lie that you’re told
Doing fine
Just do as you’re told

No dissident voices
The faces merge
Are one, absolute
A comfortable, privileged
White over belly
Revolution
No threat, no change
No gain, just pain
The same old scheme
No hope, no choice
No future, no voice
This is no pipe dream
All is not what it seems

Believe the lie
The lie that you’re told
Doing fine
Just do as you’re told
Believe the lie
The lie that you’re told
Doing fine
Just do as you’re toldIs this rock’n'roll or a form of state control?

Is this really rock’n'roll?
Or a form of state control?

Believe the lie
The lie that you’re told
Doing fine
Just do as you’re told

Believe the lie
The lie that you’re told
Doing fine
Just do as you’re told

Believe the lie
The lie that you’re told
Doing fine
Just do as you’re told

Is this rock’n'roll or a form of state control?

This bill doesn’t discourage or scare me, but it saddens me that democracy lost.

guess they are getting what they wanted its always about control

btw when does this all start right away or do we have time to download a bunch of stuff

@Tomas voting Pirate is better than not voting at all.

The Pirate Party will be lucky to get anyone elected in their 1st election. If they did it would certainly help fight DEBill. It isn’t like they can get a majority with only a handful of candidates.

Even if you can’t find it in your heart to vote Pirate, maybe you might want to send them £10 so they can at least afford to register their candidates. They are the only party you KNOW will fight DEBill.

It’s to read your e-mail.

Reading your e-mail @ 100 Mbps = teh win.

they no what we are using it for and thats why they provide us with more speed.

also this bill will not stop people. its apart of life for most teens and modern age people

also how can they prove what i am downloading.

just because i am runnng utorrent doesn’t mean i am downloading illigally.

most of the time i am download linux on utorrent that is 100% free

its still illigal to download copyright material at the moment.

so what is a new law document gunna do for me . hmmmmm nothing lol

Oink was set free and all his admins

UK we have nothing to worry about. The goverment Will cock Up and there are always loopholes in the system

I mean, with 56K, you’d hardly be downloading much.

Or is this idea still yet to come?

They did something similar when farmers and hauliers set out with rolling road blocks because of fuel prices. They got concessions to help with their businesses. Same will apply here. People unaware of what is going on will be made examples of. A lot of this will go unnoticed as the Media industry will keep it quiet. People will be fined and nothing will be aired.

We, in the UK, can choose a Government who will at least look into this law and add some reasoning. May 6th is where it starts.

Also, I’m sure more solutions to protect people will be developed before the first of any prosecutions, if any, come spring 2012.

1 Blocking torrent sites won’t work, this is very easy to get around. China can’t block sites for its citizens so what chance have these bozos got!

2 Cobbling internet speed won’t work, this has been worked around for ages.

3 Suspending internet accounts won’t work. Again with the right kit easy to get around.

4 Encryption in the future is almost certainly going to improve.

And finally

5 There will be a huge number of totally innocent people accused of file sharing as wireless hacking goes through the roof. (hopefully forcing a review the bill)

Only Noobs will get caught and the hardcore pirates will get away!

Pirates 1 : Gov 0 Guaranteed!

I’m not for copyright infringement but I am against this bill. The whole thing is guilty until proven innocent, and that in my opinion is wrong and unconstitutional. It’s the same thing with driving as well. The driver is guilty of everything and just another money making scheme. How long will it be before we see the same with the internet?

The bill also relies heavily on conviction by IP address which we know can be spoofed, stolen or faked. Therein is the fatal mistake, if a case comes to court where it can be proven that identification by IP address is not solid evidence then the cartels will be royally screwed!! They will have no way to identify people for file sharing.