Ownners of the internet connection, people who are paying for it should have full control on it. These people are mostly not advanced in IT, so they will not block stuff on a router i.e.

It could be useful if we are i.e. renting room to someone, or do not want to be liable for someone other activity

Gee – grown adults can’t handle either controlling themselves or reprimanding their own kids – so lets get some other entity be it the governement or the ISP to do it for us.

Parents – get off your lazy freakin’ asses and pay attention to what the hell your kids are doing on the internet. It’s not that difficult.

This helps to undermine confidence in the filter and will probably lead to it being discontinued…

…thus re-invalidating the defense that you would like to use.

Example:

You sign up for this ISP, turn on the bit torrent filter, circumvent the filter easily and then if you’re caught use the defense that you were using the filter so how could you have possibly been using it.

This helps to undermine confidence in the filter and will probably lead to it being discontinued.

didn’t they teach reading comprehension in the 3rd grade?

This is completely voluntary, the ISP is not forcing this onto you and many ISPs have offered this kind of service for years. If they were forcing this, then there would be cause for complaint, but they aren’t so shut your mouths and think before opening them. People like you make me ashamed to be a file sharer.

Plus, things like AOL, BT and OpenDNS have had this for years

Yes, the hormonal kids now will rage at my comments but no child should cause there parents legal hardship and any child smart enough to get around a block should be smart enough to get a fucking vpn

you Sir are an Idiot, i really hope you dont have offspring, god help them if you do

In all fairness, it’s a good idea, it would actually work and keep music industries happy while not meaning that you can’t still torrent if you want to. Except for little kids who are still using their parents internet.

I don’t think those who say “there is always a way round the block” are thinking straight. This is going to be used by parents to stop their kids using bittorrent. Kids don’t have credit cards, so they can’t sign up to rapidshare or buy a usenet account. If the kids find a technical solution to the problem, good for them, but I don’t think most kids are capable of this.

I would suggest that the IFPI/BPI pay, for example, £3 per month to the end user if they opt to have bittorrent permanently blocked by their ISP.

“I can assure officer I do not use any bittorrent sites, I even opted into to a voluntary blocking scheme”

….

To be fair, the throttling on TalkTalk for torrents is so utterly wank that they pretty much deny access to bittorrent already…

What about sites that portray people having sex with animals? You really think it’s OK for kids to come across sites like that? lol

“Ohh they’ll download porn” – who gives a hell? You christian god loving freaks who believe P2P is sharing but still see stuff like pornography as sodomy need to go educate themselves.

I just don’t think torrents should be grouped as something that might need to be filtered. It implies torrents are bad in some way, which is what the industries have been trying to do for… a long time?

We are borg………Or at least that’s how they want us.

In addition to that, users who have basic computer sense will still be able to use a VPN or any other private network or tunnel, and all the site blacklists and “cinema style ratings” in the world won’t do a thing to those users.

Good shows I buy the box set…the rest get deleted…

I think the music industry and the movie industry now wants to capitalise on the people that download a song to hear and charge everyone for that song…

Canada is now paying a levy for all blank media and I do not want it associated with the internet. As is, for work I pay x$ per CD to backup my work stuff (non-music) and the music industry gets a cut of that.

Copyright is not a monopoly and fair use should be allowed. Please pass some new laws in Canada that allow for that.

RT
http://www.total-privacy.net.tc

Just because something is optional does not mean its an option you turn ON.

I would bet that its going to be an option you can turn OFF.

Something on by default (and thus causing more people to use it) would be the only way I can think ‘the industry’ would find it even close to acceptable.

Infact, surely it moves filesharing closer to being normal… anyone kid who sees it as something their parents can do but they can’t will view it as right…

Might’ve shot themselves in the foot here…

…As long as its used “responsibly” then its all good.

The lawsuits will start flying from the content industry since you told the world you have the full ability to block P2P sites.
This will be forced upon all your subscribers sooner or later since you made it look so easy. (Remember BT saying it would cost a fortune to stop illegal downloading)

Meaning you will have to opt out in order to use P2P or bit torrent!