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darkkosmos says:

It will be like France probably

Wayfarer says:

I’d like to refer all these isps - and the media industry in general for that matter - to a story my mother used to read to me as a child.

The story concerned a man with a golden goose…

Mosey says:

What’s France like at the moment?

I was disappointed to read about the story in the news as well.

james pernelli says:

They are never gonna stop file sharers. There are web-based p2p services like FilesWire which work directly from the web and can be used on any internet connected computer. (work,internet cafe,uni, etc). So how are they going to pinpoint p2p activity if it is not even tied to your ip address.

Wayfarer says:

When the vast majority of the public do something - who has the RIGHT to call it a crime?

The problem is - at its most basic - caused not by digital technology, but by corporate greed. The media industry has had a field day with obscene profits over the last half-century - but the party is over. People don’t just share files because they’re mean - they share because everyone is pig sick of being screwed over by an industry that think 1000% markups are fair game, where true competition hardly exists, and where our intelligence is insulted almost every time an ‘anti-piracy’ spokesperson opens their mouth.

And just as sick of governments and law enforcement increasingly seen to be in the pocket of that industry. Report an assault or burglary and you’re often wasting your time - but a teenager ripping off CDs can have a dozen police kicking in his door in the early hours. It’s obscene.

There is money to be made, with new and imaginative business models. But the old media model is dead - and trying to maintain it against all odds is a luddite exercise comparable to banning the printing press and sabotaging looms.

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