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By: Gadget Newz

Gadget Newz — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:59:33 +0000

[...] Music Industry Warns That It May Sue UK File-Sharers [...]

By: Anon.

Anon. — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:47:31 +0000

Much better. At least you get something approximating due process if they sue you. They’ve been trying to be judge, jury, and executioner, and often getting away with it.

By: l-form

l-form — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:48:25 +0000

@70. Don’t blame me. The person who represents me in Parliament is not the person I voted for. The Digital Economy Bill was only introduced at the last minute by an unelected lord, not by an elected MP- someone who has a very questionable record indeed and has previously been kicked out of the government twice for dodgy dealing when he was an MP in the Commons. How noisy can we get? There is a petition to the Prime Minister with over 30,000 signatures. There has been a massive letter-writing campaign to MPs. Several major ISPs have campaigned against the bill. All these efforts have been ignored and the bill was rushed through parliament with insufficient scrutiny, making a mockery of democracy. We have an election coming up, but it is extremely likely we’ll get another bunch of corrupt idiots who will bend over backwards to get more ‘consultancy fees’ from lobbyists and pass bad laws at the drop of a hat. Unfortunately, the only party that seems to be internet-friendly is unlikely to win outright and the best I can hope for is a hung parliament.

By: Crypto

Crypto — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:06:14 +0000

VPN is good solution: http://www.ipredator.se

By: cornuto

cornuto — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:53:12 +0000

Last month BPI were saying they were against the practices of ACS:LAW. Looks like Andrew must have sat on Geoff Taylor’s lap.

By: TheFileSharingParsnip

TheFileSharingParsnip — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:42:19 +0000

YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE COPPER !!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:59:02 +0000

“Music Industry Warns That It May Sue UK File-Sharers”

And we are warning that we are going to K some corporate parasites soon starting within the BPI.

Sorry.

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By: Dude

Dude — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:00:00 +0000

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By: Le Fake

Le Fake — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:37:52 +0000

I think most of the blame for this new legislation goes to the ordinary people of Britain. You are the ones who chose the members of parliament and were not noisy enough to prevent this from passing.

If you don’t like what’s happening, keep in mind who spoke, for and against this, in the next elections.

By: Hephaestus

Hephaestus — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:43:03 +0000

The UK will get its 70% reduction in file sharing for the same reason that sweden has had such a huge drop in observable file sharing. It will go to encrypted private shares, VPN, sneakernet, and a whole host of other methods of sharing. The UK’s DEB will actually backfire on the music industry as kids and teens have a habit of thumbing their noses at authority and adapting faster than the laws can be passed.

By: UK: BPI avverte che ricomincerà le cause ai file-sharer

UK: BPI avverte che ricomincerà le cause ai file-sharer — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:33:04 +0000

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By: welll

welll — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:44:16 +0000

Although I prefer that these parasites be dealt with by the law, we may still have to kill some of these music industry scum.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:05:12 +0000

If you hate the major labels and their music so much (not in dispute here) you have an alternative. Boycott them all together and only buy true independent label music, better still go creative commons. Many quality artists release their music under a creative commons license and often provide free downloads to gain exposure….eg Antiqcool…..just google it.

By: 666

666 — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:20:19 +0000

over 2TB of music and still downloading… BPI can kiss me where the sun don’t shine

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By: Rashiki

Rashiki — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:58:09 +0000

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By: Music Industry Warns That It May Sue UK File-Sharers

Music Industry Warns That It May Sue UK File-Sharers — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:14:22 +0000

[...] The BPI has warned that it may be forced into suing UK file-sharers, despite the recent passing of the Digital Economy Act. In an interview yesterday, Chief Executive Geoff Taylor said although the industry would prefer for file-sharing to be dealt with via ‘technical measures’, they might still have to sue some people. Read ahead [...]

By: Freeleech

Freeleech — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:28:27 +0000

That’s what happens when people live in the past. Poor BPI guys still think it’s 2004 and BitTorrent is just a bad dream.

By: Freeleech

Freeleech — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:13:25 +0000

As always: boycott the industry and don’t let the thugs of MAFIAA to intimidate you.

Nothing new here.

By: Ninja

Ninja — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:12:02 +0000

Oh, the hypocrisy.. If they didn’t want to sue those people they’d offer legal alternatives for sane prices. They’d also understand that people don’t buy everything, people have priorities and money is finite.

They’ll fail. As always.

By: depill

depill — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:03:10 +0000

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By: Stan.

Stan. — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:26:51 +0000

This is nothing more than scare mongering and FUD.

The BPI won’t spend money to bring a person to court, if there is any chance it may lose the case and have to pay costs.

By: Bas

Bas — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:14:47 +0000

Let’s stop buying music altogether then.

By: gorehound

gorehound — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:24:37 +0000

1. keep downloading everything you want for free
2. never give a dime to any of these corporates

3.fuck off bpi,mpaa,riaa, and all you other loser greedbags

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:43:10 +0000

BPI the only way you can stop us is fuckin make songs cost 10p each, and £1 per album. You don’t deserve the money the artists do.

By: Rob the Musician

Rob the Musician — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:24:37 +0000

as dg1000 said at #45 “There is no money whatsoever in *stopping* file-sharing. There is – potentially – a *lot* of money in monetising copyright infringement… once the DEB became law, the only bit of it of any use to the BPI, FACT, et al, is the ability to compel ISPs to hand over names and addresses so they can send out ACS:Law-style extortion letters.

“Today’s announcement would seem to confirm my suspicion that *everything* else, the entire Digital Economy Bill, is so much window-dressing to disguise that single solitary aim.”

Which I’m afraid is what section 4 of the Digital “Exclusion” Act is all about.

If this BPI crazy-guy wants war, then lets just go into shops and trash all their products time and time again, leaving a message saying why.

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Pirate Home Page » Music Industry Warns That It May Sue UK File-Sharers — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:09:38 +0000

[...] Following the passing of the UK’s Digital Economy Act in early April, BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor has been speaking with Billboard about how he sees the next steps for tacking file-sharing in the UK. Read More : Music Industry Warns That It May Sue UK File-Sharers [...]

By: niiice

niiice — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:06:17 +0000

@#7:

ha! i see what you did there..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:25:05 +0000

Why the hell wait for 18 to 24 months? Are these guys mentally challenged turds or what?

Like it or not the internet is the modern equivalent of recording off the radio or borrowing from the library. Despite what they say you are no more liable for copywrite infringement by checking out a book from the library or downloading it.

Sharing has evolved from bricks and mortar or sneakers to the internet. Eventally these orgs will see the follow of fighting the greatest sharing resource ever invented and work with it. They put a tax on blank tapes, why not on gigs downloaded?

The other solution is to force the industry to make everything copywrited available intantly on the internet at reasonable prices inorder to maintain a copywrite. In other words use it or lose it.

By: Robert Munro

Robert Munro — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:20:14 +0000

Just boycott those bands that go for record contracts.

Who needs more Spice Girls and Boyzone clones anyways?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:23:39 +0000

Music Industry Warns That It May Sue UK File-Sharers.

Oh Yea?

Go for it!

Let’s k… all these fucking bastard corporate parasites!

Expend the boycott! Tell your friends!

No CD no DVD No Movie No paying download! Please!!!

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:54:55 +0000

The truth of the issue is the BPI,RIAA,MPAA whatever faceless acronyms they use have always wanted to do this.

This is no different to the “home taping is killing music” shit they pulled in the 1980s, surely they would bankrupt themselves by paying the legal costs involved to sue a majority of file sharers.I would boycott all these major labels that these people work for (infact i probably dont buy anything off them anyway).

If they dont want us to use the internet for file sharing i say we set up groups where we burn collections of MP3s to DVD discs and pass them round to friends.

Hundreds of years ago when someone wrote a song the only way we could ever hear it again was to play it on an instrument and learn the lyrics repeating them to someone else, so really music “piracy” has always been rife.

How about we set up some way of banning them from using the internet?. Either way rant ended, support these organizations and such.

http://bpiboycott.wordpress.com/
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dontdisconnectus/

By: FJG

FJG — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:38:32 +0000

So they detect a torrent on my IP, let them sue me and prove that I, the connection owner, committed a crime.

Truth is they can’t. The first cases to be contested in courts will fail, if the defendant has half a lawyer and an IQ higher than a goldfish.

I saw this excellent blog the other day: http://bit.ly/9H5fLq

It says if car license plates were treated like IP addresses in the Digital Economy Bill then who TF would want to own a car?

FJG

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:49:51 +0000

Off to download a TON of music, as I do each time the suits piss me off.

Thanks to them I’ve a ton of great tunes. I wish we could support the artists directly – then I’ll start buying music again.

Support your independent artists! Make they’re earning far exceed the **AA’s!

By: PantySnifferParty

PantySnifferParty — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:44:23 +0000

Music Industry Warns That It May Sue UK File-Sharers

File-sharers tells music industry to go fuck itself.

By: Whatever

Whatever — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:25:27 +0000

I’ll repeat:
Cooperation is futile, it will end up in court anyhow.

Now the politicians cooperated in name of the public and the public get sued anyhow like mininova, ftd… and so on.

@9 Hello there
Thats a weak argument. I don’t know if it is just an excuse because you actually like another party better or if you think it useless anyhow.

When all the people now voting on libdem think the same you do then they wouldn’t even exist anymore.
(btw: i am not in or from UK so i cant give any of them my vote)

And chaos ?, sure, like some politicians went as far as to say that the lights will go out when voting against the EU “constitution” in the Netherlands.

Guess what ? .. no such thing happened.

By: dg1000

dg1000 — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:23:22 +0000

I rather think many have missed the entire point of the BPI’s campaign. Remember that they are a commercial entity owned entirely by other commercial entities: i.e. the record companies. The BPI exists, in it’s entirety, simply to create revenue – or create the means to create revenue – for those companies.

There is no money whatsoever in *stopping* file-sharing. There is – potentially – a *lot* of money in monetising copyright infringement. As I wrote and said to my pro-copyright MP before the DEB was passed, as I asked neostyles on these pages (he ignored the question, of course), once the DEB became law, the only bit of it of any use to the BPI, FACT, et al, is the ability to compel ISPs to hand over names and addresses so they can send out ACS:Law-style extortion letters.

Today’s announcement would seem to confirm my suspicion that *everything* else, the entire Digital Economy Bill, is so much window-dressing to disguise that single solitary aim.

By: WaWaWa

WaWaWa — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:14:43 +0000

the news gets better every day.

hehehehehehehe

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:03:45 +0000

@ 8 Apr 17, 2010 at 13:13 by the.dwarfer:

Mandelson and Ashcroft? I’d rather kick Mandelson in the groin twice. It would be with reluctance, and it would hurt me more than it would hurt him.

By: Shep

Shep — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:58:06 +0000

“if illicit sharing isn’t reduced by around 70% in the next 18 to 24 months, Taylor says that the music industry will probably have to start suing people again”

of course sharing isn’t going to drop 70%, ever.

BRING. IT. ON!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:40:47 +0000

I used to think that filesharing was mildly wrong. Since this act was passed and after seeing the arrogance displayed by the music industry, I now believe it’s everyone’s moral duty to fileshare. We can’t afford to let prats like the BPI think that their draconian schemes actually work.

By: Axl

Axl — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:39:51 +0000

Also BPI seems to be indicating that they have already developed the online services that people want:

“We have always believed that the most important thing we can do is create fantastic new convenient services that are attractively priced with great content that have millions of tracks and are easy to use. We believe we have done that.”

By: stupid.

stupid. — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:34:14 +0000

#1 – I know I am.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:33:03 +0000

haha Churchill whould not put up with bpi.

bpi is hittlers children.

there in a grace period we intend to pass our laws.

1000 years in prison for the bpi ifpi workers employees lawyers.

sound crazy yer bet is, no more crazy than not sharing.

perhaps i should stop sharing my wage with the government.

bpi are shysters taking advantage.

down with masons down with the new world order.

By: Self Helpless

Self Helpless — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:28:29 +0000

Why sue the people who support your music and movies?

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By: GrX

GrX — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:22:32 +0000

“Government disagreed with us, regrettably, and decided not to bring the technical measures into effect immediately and has said to us that it expects us to bring legal cases and that it will take that into account when it looks at whether or not to introduce technical measures,” he explained.

lmao… this is not what the government said at all

the government said due to the increased reports of piracy they are leaving it upto the industry to come up with a way to work with customers to offer new services which is fair for all and will stamp out the need for piracy.

so now they’ve got this bill though now realized hang on.. if people don’t buy music because they get d/c or as a boycott we’ve now shot ourself in the foot how are we going to get money now?

i know we will have to still sue people.

i have yet to see any services offered yet from these assholes

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:18:57 +0000

Haha if I ever got a notification saying that they were suing me I would write return to sender on the Envelope and write blow me all over the notice.