UK Government To Terminate File Sharers' Net Access

An anonymous reader writes "New plans published by the UK Govt show that they hope to terminate internet access for people suspected of breaching copyright by file sharing. Under the proposed new laws ISPs who fail to enforce the policy will face prosecution in the courts. Users falling foul of the new law will be subject to a three strike policy: First suspected instance of illegal file sharing they would receive a warning, at the second — a suspension, and at the third they will have their Internet connection terminated. It isn't clear whether users will be prevented from ever using the internet again, or whether simply subscribing to a new ISP will reset the process."

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welcome to the latest round of whack-a-mole

[circletimessquare]

the law thinks it can control file sharing. it can't. but they aren't smart enough to realize that they just drive the practice further underground. napster was wipe open. shut off one server, it all goes down. so progressive iterations of file sharing software became headless, obfuscated ips, etc. now we will get encryption

all of these legal efforts, all they do is drive the creation of more robust software. what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. thank you, uk government, for making file sharing software stronger

one would hope one day that the people making the laws get a clue, or at least a vaguely web savvy advisor. they probably think somebody who writes a blog is web savvy. what a joke

intellectual property is dead. the laws that people write about intellectual property is completely out of synch with the technology intellectual property exists on. the reality we live in has train cunductors writing the laws that govern the legal management of animal husbandry. what do train conductors know about animal husbandry? i don't know, but neither do the people writing the laws of ip know anything about the file sharing

Re:go ask the aztec and incan nobility

[cliffski]

"if distributors are removed, i think maybe 1/10th of the money involved goes away. but as before artists saw only 1/1,000th of the money in play, now they will see 900% of the money in play. so artists make out better for the destruction of distributors"

keep telling yourself this if it makes you feel better about piracy, but its a pathetic justification.
I don't even use middlemen 90% of the time, I sell my stuff direct. And people still pirate it. 90% of the money sued to go to me. When people pirate the stuff, 0% of it goes it me.
It seems like you, like many slashdotters read a few bullshit statistics once about the amount per copy some musician negotiated (yes this stuff is written in the contract they THEY signed), and have used it as a blanet justification for mass piracy ever since.

Do you check to see what chunk the content creator gets before you 'justify' each torrent? or do you just leech what the fuck you want anyway, and screw the creator?

You can compare me to a chimney sweep if it makes you feel technologically superior, but the progress being described is hardly progress. We currently have thriving creative industries. Widespread piracy will kill them all off. I'm not asking for anyone's sympathy, just pointing out that the music and movie loving warez kids are acting like the easter island occupants.

I don't expect to change any hardcore pirates minds anyway, you all think that other people exist purely to entertain you at our expense. This is why content is increasingly aimed at young kids or people over 30. People make content aimed at who buys it, not who likes it.