Comments on: Finnish ISPs to Warn Pirating Customers

By: finfag

finfag — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:51:54 +0000

This is great news!
When I first heard about this plan there was speculation of the penalties after the 3rd letter.
And now it’s nothing, I set up VPN and VPNetMon for nothing.
Well if they eventually change the law I’m prepared.
While I wait for that to happen, I’ll try to collect some of those letters, for the kids need paper to draw on.

By: Det

Det — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:01:55 +0000

Wish I’d live in Finland… wait, I do.

By: finnboy2010

finnboy2010 — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:57:43 +0000

@45: afaik, downloading without sharing is still legal, no matter if it’s copyrighted work. read the previous law on this issue.

By: finnboy2010

finnboy2010 — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:55:09 +0000

whatever. these laws come and go and won’t affect file sharing in any way. most probably more data will be shared, using private networks or whatsoever.

been there. done that. seen this too many times. if anyone gets to pay mafiaa, it’ll be stupid teenager boys who don’t understand even the basic laws nor ethics of human life.

and hey! you get to show your friends how many warnings you already had. these could be collector stuff in the future!

By: Old Fart from Finnish Woods

Old Fart from Finnish Woods — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:25:41 +0000

As mentioned above, Finnish politics works on compromises.
I do miss the earlier law, where non-commercial downloading was legal, as long as you didn’t share copyrighted works. Of course BitTorrent causes a small problem, because you share as you download, but one could argue that you share only random parts of the file, which don’t do jack shit on their own.
Old law would be much better concidering everyone. People could download, Big Media could still go after a-holes trying to make money with their content, cops wouldn’t have to waste resources chasing kids downloading over 9000 Mikko Alatalo albums…

By: Dawgdude

Dawgdude — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:10:08 +0000

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By: Im da finn

Im da finn — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:21:54 +0000

Yeap yeap. There’s one big noticeable thing here. If you dont use dc++ or piratebay, you dont have to worry about the antipiracy notices etc. It’s no worth it to investigate person who shares “one movie” example, but when they see you have 100+ in your dc++ shares it’s lot more profitting.

By: homie

homie — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:15:10 +0000

finland looks great!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:13:12 +0000

When I saw this in the news two days ago my jaw dropped. I was annoyed that this has now made its way into my country.

There is also a government plan to combine commercial efforts and public spending to make 100 Mbit/s connections available to 99.9 % of the Finnish population by 2016.

In the mean time, the worst ISP in the world, Telia Sonera, has gone to court to weasel out of their responsibility to provide the guaranteed 1 Mbit/s connections to their customers.

The law also says that the actual minimum is really 500 kbit/s for an average over a period of 4 hours!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:23:15 +0000

Legalize file sharing NOW!