How do you work that out? Your provider will still record the traffic through their servers, surely?

http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/

When Paraguay passes a law similar to this, then I’ll worry…

For a cheap VPN try SwissVPN:
http://www.swissvpn.net

People who illegally download music and films could have their internet connection slowed down or cut off altogether under new legislation.
New law to curb illegal downloads .The Government said its Digital Economy Bill would ensure the UK was at the “leading edge” of global online industries.

Under the proposed legislation, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) would be required to notify users accused of online piracy.

They would also have to record how many times each subscriber receives one of these notifications.

This would allow the copyright holders to apply for a court order to get the name and address of serious repeat offenders so they can take legal action against them.

But the Bill, announced in the Queen‘s speech on Wednesday and published on Friday, also makes provision for the Secretary of State to direct communications regulator Ofcom to develop tough sanctions for illegal file-sharers.

These could include bandwidth capping – where the user‘s internet connection is slowed down – or temporary suspension of their online account.

The Bill would give the Secretary of State power to require ISPs to impose these technical measures.

Anyone who feels they have been unfairly penalised could complain through a “clear and effective appeals mechanism”.

The Bill also includes a power to amend copyright legislation to deal with any new technologies that emerge in the future.

“The anarchist punk band Crass was very different from their contemporaries. The Sex Pistols and The Clash sold their souls to big record labels, whereas Crass stayed true to their anti-corporate ideals. Crass still exists today as a commune just outside of London named ‘Dial House’- a safe haven for those individuals of principle who still live by the old punk slogan ‘Do it yourself’.”
– minimovies

Film:
“Crass: There is No Authority but Yourself”
by Alexander Oey

That’s not really a problem, though. The real issue is that he’s the MOST bent politician you’re ever likely to come across – & in a culture of bribery, corruption & general all-round dishonesty, that’s saying something…

i feel like his family will make a use of it soon

Please stop spewing nonsense…

Stealing is “the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another”

Copying is copying, it may be infringement but it is NOT theft, no matter how many times you repeat your lie.

JJ, your “STEALING 10 T-SHIRTS” anecdote actually involves the physical taking away of property from it’s owner and so is a ridiculous example to use as an example against our arguments.

If you change that to:

You copy the designs from 10 t-shirts onto your own blank t-shirts and do so for your own personal use (not to sell on, etc.) AND let other people see that design (share it) whilst credit continues to be given to the original designer… – Then and ONLY then do you have an equivalent example of filesharing.

I’m voting Lib Dem.

I knew they’d be the only one of the 3 major parties to defend our rights and stand up to Mandelson.

Screw Labour, screw the Tories… neither of those 2 parties are for the people, they are the UK’s 2-party-scam… and Lib Dem is the only realisitic answer to break free from it.

I almost felt sorry for him reading about all his personal problems and getting fired.

Not so anymore.

The government should get rid of him for good this time. Some Labour politician he is!!
In the pocket of big corporations!

First get a life really copyright is all about distribution rights ie selling cd/dvd well guess what thats over what these fuckers are trying to fight for.

They hate the fact that anybody can crate music and film with out using them.

It funny how people here thing voilateing copyright is a crime when dosen’t even aperar on a statuary book.

What these people lack is critical thinking much like the idiots who believe authority is always right.

and believe idioms like this

“if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about”

But i say

“if i have done nothing you have nothing to worry about”

What next thrown i jail for shearing a packet of mini cheadrs ?

GROW UP

Times change

art is free culture that existed WELL before greedy people inveted imaginary property.

Think about your punting human rights (and yes sharing is human right or if your religious a god given right) before a something perfetic as entertainment industry.

Copywrite dose not stand for anything but greed and cruption.

so go on surport it and when you rotting away beacuse you have cancer we will tell you it your fault beacuse some wanker from thinks he owns a compound that we need to use to save your life but beacuse of copyright and i/p we carn’t beacuse we don’t have his permition.

Copyright= EVIL
Patent=EVIL

Need i remind you these corporation have REAL links to criminal organizations who fund there films.

Sieg Heil Chancellor Mandelson.
The Fourth Reich is upon you.

ultimate-privacy.br.tc

yeah! this story has entered the popular today section on popurls.com…

That site sucks. Its worse than connecting through most isp’s as it keeps logs. Next time before you post something, try not to post a honeypot for others to get busted.

Site says” Please do not use this site for illegal activities. All connections are logged.”

I don’t feel like being logged for every search I make and I don’t feel like being arrested for typing in torrent etc through their site.

How do I know this? Because, I have several crawlers walking on lot of torrent sites everyday.

(I do not have torrent site, but I do have crawlers running at this moment. Not just one crawler, I have 10 crawlers running on two computers, searching lot of torrentsites all the time).

I am telling you, lot of site clained they have some 2~3M torrents, it is fake. They never had.

EU law no longer protects us.

Amendment 138 was dropped.

Also don’t rely on the EU for freedoms, read the footnotes for the “Fundamental freedoms” bit, it’s nasty.

While were at it lets add sockpuppets too, annoying little twits.

And with blatant disregard of “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law” at the heart of this one, it’s way too easy a target.

In fact knowing how Labour strategists work, i wouldn’t be surprised if this bill has been made deliberately so ridiculous as to take the heat off the ones they actually really want to get passed. Like the one about old biddies and such.

Relax fellas. Storm in a teacup. Mark my words! :)

Just goes to show that the corporate fu-ckpigs are running scared.

Their end is _so_ near… =]

wow requires so much logic to figure this out.

For something to be theft, you must deprive the owner of that item.

Next time use your brain please.

30 years ago if my neighbour had a videocassete he would lend it to me so i could watch a movie.

nowadays the internet breaks apart the physical part of it and makes sharing way too easy due to technology..

piracy my friends is copying dvds and selling them.

sharing is still sharing that videocassete just the internet allowed us to do it in huge scale and no industry is preppared or willing to adapt. so they spend more money than they lose trying to stop neighbours lending neighbours videocassetes.

and IN the process… they break every human rights and privacy laws that ever existed in human history
and THAT affects EVERYONE so even if someone doesnt file share, they cant stand for how the industry breaks laws, and human rights .

albeith i find it weird how 40 and 60 year old men and women , probably,
are voting on anything related to internet and its regulation.

i doubt their file share or use internet for more than to pass their political agenda.

so any opinion they have about the internet is related to the industry that is trying to pass such laws because their the ones paying certain peoples elections or simply put, the only reason they even think about filesharing is because their being paid by the industries complaining how the internet should be enslaved .