Comments on: UK Government Opens Filesharing Consultation

By: People STEAL!

People STEAL! — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:32:51 +0000

Who gives a shit if I download a few tracks. I wouldn’t have that much music if I paid, not affecting anyone, and the artists are rich enough.

By: jon

jon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:41:46 +0000

Well i certainly would not pay for faster broadband if P2P was banned. I would reduce my package to 4mb and hence the isp would earn less

By: PJ____

PJ____ — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:20:21 +0000

Another way to tax us maybe!!!

By: techhead

techhead — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:24:24 +0000

but most ppl who use torrent now use some from of proxy to hide there ip
to stop ppl lke that gettign that information

By: Mrmr

Mrmr — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:14:57 +0000

Ok. This is serious. If you write in make sure that its intelligently written and gets the point true. I see a lot of retarded comments here on torrentfreak. No badboys need write in to the goverment.

By: oneplusone

oneplusone — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:56:31 +0000

Lip service alert! Pretenders to democracy! Go through the motions, boys! Keep up appearances! Dress those windows! Deposit those brown paper bags!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:16:03 +0000

Public consultation don’t mean shit in the UK as the government does what ever it wants all the time. I think the most recent example was there was an independent panel of experts (doctors, scientists, police & psychologists) that recommended that cannabis should not be reclassified to a class B drug. The government totally ignored the report (from a panel of independent experts) and said they were going to reclassify it anyway.

And this isn’t anything extraordinary as its regular practise by the UK goverment. There a shower of basterds that i will never vote for again.

By: tracker owners UK

tracker owners UK — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:39:31 +0000

we are organising a campaign to get the voices of the filesharer heard in this consultation

the campaign site was put up yesterday, the global DNS is still updating with the new domain name, expect an announcement at the weekend

let us take our opinions to the politicians. we will tell them what we think about the media cartels. we will make our voices heard

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:13:46 +0000

@40 they had a similiar hearing in Sweden where they invited industry groups only, since they only wanted people that represent “legal” alternatives.

Anyway, it’s easy to prove that there is no way of effectively addressing it without seriously hurting people’s privacy, but i guess it isn’t worth that much in UK.

There is one way though, if they try to compete with p2p without going to court, offering something (free ofc) and better, but they’re never going to take any responsibility like that.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:42:06 +0000

i think that the anti-piracy companies should stop chasing P2P users that only download to watch them and start going after the real threat to the movie and music industry which imo are those people that download a movie burn it and sell it on the streets and make money (+bad rep for piracy) for something that was intended for personal use only!

Oh and @ BPI: stop harassing us brits and go f**k your selfs!

By: s2pid

s2pid — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:09:36 +0000

I was thinking since my country’s flag has a Union Jack(a small section reserved for the Queen and her seed).Can i have say in this consultation about P2P?

If I did have a quibble then i would say:
Fucking piss cunts.

If i am not allowed to say anything:

Well,Suck my torrent.

By: Finn

Finn — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:50:49 +0000

We had something like this recently in Finland and let me tell you, it was all just a show. Of course it doesn’t hurt to express your opinion but I would get my hopes up that the government is actually listening to file sharers or even the consumers. Still, not trying is the easies way to lose.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:26:24 +0000

@37 Everyone knows that, although a street vendor isn’t going to sell much is he? The real turnover is in organized operations

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:19:14 +0000

So first the govt implies ignorance of file sharing and just goes along with all cartel demands, then after all the damage is done, they put on a show of fairness by inviting public comment, evidence required. What substantiated evidence and investigation was required to arrest oink users and allow all the other extortive industry demands? Look before you leap is something every child has learned, and govts have no excuse for their mercenary actions.

By: Repeat Offender

Repeat Offender — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:12:36 +0000

There is a HUGE difference between someone uploading/downloading MP3s than some jackhole sleaze bucket it rips MP3s to CDs, prints of cover sheets, puts it into nice little cases and sells it on a street. One is for personal use, the other is for profit. Those who profit are the real pirates, they are the ones who are infringing on copyrights.

Downloading a lot of times can introduce people to new music which in turn leads to new fans which means more people going to concerts, buying overpriced t-shirts and probably buying CDs.

Heck, I paid $6.66 for the Radiohead download and then turned around a few months later and bought the CD because I fucking love Radiohead. Metallica and shit like that will never earn a dime of my money.

By: #YLS#

#YLS# — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:35:48 +0000

@ Richard

You know when it’ll be up? as I also want people here to get involved but it’s difficult when ORG hasn’t managed to keep up.

Not that I’m knocking it, ORG have some very good views, just there’s little of public advertisement for what is a fairly big group.

By: Spielberg

Spielberg — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:47:52 +0000

Stop robbing me damn it! If it wasn’t for pirates I’d be sitting on a pile of cash…

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:46:45 +0000

@Anonymous (3), @CallToArms (16)

The Open Rights Group has been very active on this front recently. They have a tool that you can use to help contribute to a response: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/consult

I’m sure this consultatoin will be appearing on there as soon as their volunteers (of whom I am one) can arrange it!

By: Dragus

Dragus — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:09:08 +0000

tell the government filesharing should be legalised for non-profit Commercial because no profit being made. so there not really lossing anything standup for your rights give it to them while you still can.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:59:34 +0000

I suspect that many of you are industry spies here to tell people to “go back underground” and to tell people that the industries are very powerful so that people can’t do anything about them.