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UK ISPs Resistant to Monitoring Users

Posted by Zonk on from the as-well-they-might-be dept.

ethericalzen writes "An article from BBC News online states that ISPs in the UK are resistant to the government's desires for monitoring their users' data. The government seeks to have ISPs turn off the access of users who are 'persistent pirates'. The ISPs are citing technical and legal reasons for why they do not wish to do this. Legals reasons include surveillance laws which prohibit ISPs from monitoring a user's data unless compelled by a warrant. Technical reasons include an inability to accurately identify copyrighted material that is legally being transferred over p2p clients, and copyrighted material that is being transferred illegally over p2p clients."

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  1. Tubes again? by esocid · · Score: 4, Funny

    A spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) said the 2002 E-Commerce Regulations defined net firms as "mere conduits" and not responsible for the contents of the traffic flowing across their networks.
    Is that a british term for tubes?
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    1. Re:Tubes again? by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, "mere" is the old English word for lake or large body of water. A conduit is a transport system. So, net firms are therefore responsible for the pipes linking reservoirs together.

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  2. Re:Yeah, right by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

    A final twenty million kicking each other to death for fake Burberry baseball caps.

    They're actually kicking each other so that they can film it and put it on youTube. So they're all watching each other as well.

  3. Re:too little too late... by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 4, Funny

    Night is slowly falling over the UK. ... and only the owls give a hoot.