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!