Comments on: Piracy Surcharge Set To Force 40,000 Households Offline http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:48:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: ITGS Diigo Boomarks – Read the Latest… 01/04/2010 | ITGS Online /piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/#comment-631404 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:24:40 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=20157#comment-631404 [...] Piracy Surcharge Set To Force 40,000 Households Offline | TorrentFreak [...]

]]> By: Sid /piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/#comment-629783 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:20:55 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=20157#comment-629783 You wanna own some tunes you pay your money. you dont wanna pay listen to the radio and quit yer bitching.

welcome to the real world where shit costs money lol

]]> By: Sensible Comment /piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/#comment-629515 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:10:58 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=20157#comment-629515 I believe most, if not all, of the comments seem to have missed the point.

The ‘tax’ is NOT to offset the ‘cost’ of piracy. It is how much the ISPs estimate it will cost to implement the ‘anti-filesharing scheme’ and send warning letters to IP address holders who have allegedly downloaded copyrighted content.

So, it is NOT a ‘get out of jail’ card!

]]> By: rab the scot /piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/#comment-629500 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:57:06 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=20157#comment-629500 This tax is going from the sublime to the ridiculous, the UK government is kneeling down in front of these companys music or films and say “yes no problem we will tax the british people again, they won’t mind or even notice”, but I will, and if it does really happen my PC will be on 24/7, I will download anything and everything, just to make a point. Further to this, If all these big music and film companies lowered their prices maybe people would actually go out and buy these products, but for some the price is out of their reach, ok I hear you say they are not expensive, for me no they are not but I have a lot of friends on low income who cannot afford cd’s or dvd’s, they have internet and that is a cheap alternative for them 25 pounds per month. So UK government put another 25 pounds on their bill, fill the fat bosses safes with more money and put the internet out of reach for a lot of people

]]> By: 219 /piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/#comment-629479 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:15:51 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=20157#comment-629479 http://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-face-60-billion-damages-for-pirating-artists-091207/

]]> By: 219 /piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/#comment-629478 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:15:24 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=20157#comment-629478 well… if you haven’t already seen it, they’re getting a taste of their own bullshit.

]]> By: Torrent Wiki /piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/#comment-629441 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:32:18 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=20157#comment-629441 Visit http://torrentwiki.tk/

]]> By: TRYER /piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/#comment-629411 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:28:30 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=20157#comment-629411 Well that kind of sucks for the UK but at least you guys can download music all you want for that charge.

I have to laugh a little bit with Madonna and all those other musicians in the UK when they open their ISP bill to see “Music industry surcharge”

One thing we can get kicks out of=P

]]> By: tosser /piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/#comment-629400 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:05:18 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=20157#comment-629400 Also it’s worth noting that we’re already being taxed £6 per year to improve broadband roll-out to remote and disadvantaged people.

Something, somewhere, has gone wrong.

]]> By: tosser /piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/#comment-629398 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:02:48 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=20157#comment-629398 Ah well – that’s £25 I won’t be able to spend on DVDs… somebody’s loss.

Idiots, the lot of ‘em.

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