Stop Piracy by Kicking P2P Users off the Internet
The glorious idea to kick file sharers off the Internet, effectively banning them from accessing the Internet, seems to be in consideration in Australia in an effort to fight Internet piracy. It does not happen very often that I'm left totally speechless but this proposal managed to succeed making me so. I really don't know how to reply to such an idiotic proposal.
Ban someone from the Internet because he is a file sharer? Would not that be the equivalent of banning someone from using knifes ever again because he stabbed someone with one? No sorry sir, you have to use the spoon to put butter on your bread, you are banned from using knifes ever again.
Well you used a car in the bank robbery, that means that we will ban you from driving around with cars ever again, sorry, no buses either, use a bike or walk. That's silly I know but that's how I feel about this proposal.
They act like if file sharing was the only activity for those users on the Internet. No information gathering, chatting, talking with friends, watching videos, movies, exchanging knowledge and all the other activities.
Someday they will understand that restrictions, drm, bans and all the other crazy ideas that they have to make the life of real consumers miserable and more expensive will not help stopping piracy at all. But go ahead, ban a huge part of the population from accessing the Internet and see what happens to the economic power and progress of that nation.. and your job in the next legislation.
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when you say it’s like banning someone from using knives ever again because they stabbed someone is stilla bit extreme; is downloading a film from a multi-million dollar industry really as wrong as stabbing a person? that person may never live a normal life again, but the movie companies are just money-grabbing sons of bitches wanting to maximise their profit margin.
Most pirates I’ve ran into do it as much because they think they’re fighting a war against oppressive laws as they do just to get the files. If you start doing things like this you start putting them on the right side by proving that the side of law is in the wrong in more people’s eyes.
I don’t even care, I don’t use bittorent anyway. To thoughs who think it’s harsh, stop pirating and dancing around the MPAA while hiding behind the legal shield then.
I agree that it’s quite ridiculous, even aberrant.
From my links archive:
The Lowdown on Warez
– that’s almost complete reasons for piracy list.
You can ban people – but that is only a symptom.
You can’t cure piracy in that way.
But there are some goodnes in all industry crazy proposals.
It opens people’s eyes, and can wake real Resistance.
That’s a little harsh. I can understand fining someone for sharing files illegally, but kicking them off the internet is just stupid. Just because somebody commits a crime doesn’t mean you should ban them from ever using the tool that they committed a crime with. Let’s just hope that they decide against this.