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UK ISPs To Face Piracy Deadline
superbrose notes that despite lots of legal difficulties regarding Internet privacy, the UK government is going ahead with plans to punish ISPs for allowing their customers to download illegal music and films. The claim is that there is "rampant piracy" in Britain with more than 6 million broadband users downloading files illegally every year. "The government will on Friday tell internet service providers they will be hit with legal sanctions from April next year unless they take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads of music and films. Britain would be one of the first countries in the world to impose such sanctions. Service providers say what the government wants them to do would be like asking the Royal Mail to monitor the contents of every envelope posted."
Service providers say what the government wants them to do would be like asking the Royal Mail to monitor the contents of every envelope posted.
Don't give them any ideas...
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Don't forget to include a couple of MP3s to sweeten the deal
which is totally what she said
The ISPs died for my sins.
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
In response, a government minister said, "What a great idea! We'll need to get going on that, too!"
6 million?? This sounds like a job for . . . da - da da da . . . Hitler!!
The point is that that there are only about 2 million broadband subscribers in the UK http://www.liquidzope.com/abc/2/4currentusage/currentstatebbd/view, so 6 million using it for illegal downloads effectively means everybody with broadband access (excluding libraries, etc, where you can't usually plug your iPod in to take the download away with you). So the government is saying that all broadband users are using it for illegal downloads; clearly the answer is to make broadband illegal!
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Remember, remember, the fifth of November.
Governments need to be afraid of it's people.
Start running around with a mask that has a shit eating grin on it mkay?
Wow, I think this is the first time I've ever seen a discussion about p2p Godwin'ed.....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
This reminds me of mountainbiking in my local woods. The ramblers, wardens etc started putting logs across the trails in an effort to stop us riding them, little did they know that the extra obstacles made the trails even more fun to ride
Quite right. I signed another one at about the same time as the ID cards one. This is what happened:
Q. "Dear Prime Minister, please abolish all faith schools and prohibit the teaching of creationism and other religious mythology in all UK schools."
A. "The Government remains committed to a diverse range of schools for parents to choose from, including schools with a religious character or "faith schools" as they are commonly known. Social divisions along religious lines are definitely a good thing and have certainly never caused any problems of any sort. Anyway we didn't read what you said, we don't care what your opinion is, because we are right."
So I guess if you want to change things you just have to go out and vote. Ha ha, I split my own sides there.
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> when the smoking ban was introduced there was hardly any protest
... "puff puff cough splutter.. a rest"
Yeah, that was the shortest march ever.. "WHAT DO WE WANT ?"
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Well, a young Springfield woman was found dead in her home. Her face had been chewed off by two pit bulls, which were taken to the animal shelter on suspicion of murder, no bail had been set for the dogs.
The coroner says she overdosed on cocaine before getting her face chewed off. Her live-in boyfriend had an airtight alibi- as the Springfield paper reports:So for those of you who are against downloading music, I say SO THERE! =P
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You insensitive clod. I have just returned from Charlie's funeral. He was a good man, but had a weak heart.
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