The Pirates Will Always Win, Says UK ISP

TheEvilOverlord writes "The head of UK ISP TalkTalk, Charles Dunstone, has made the comment ahead of the communications minister's Digital Britain report that illegal downloading cannot be stopped. He said 'If you try speed humps or disconnections for peer-to-peer, people will simply either disguise their traffic or share the content another way. It is a game of Tom and Jerry and you will never catch the mouse. The mouse always wins in this battle and we need to be careful that politicians do not get talked into putting legislation in place that, in the end, ends up looking stupid.' Instead he advocates allowing users 'to get content easily and cheaply.'"

Comments

Flamebait?

[TheLink]

Hmm, so how's that flamebait?

Someone couldn't handle the truth? :)

Or maybe I should have used the term "restrict" instead of the phrase "clamp down"?

But you can clamp down on stuff that is legal.

To quote Merriam Webster quoting Time: "a clampdown on charge accounts, bank loans, and other inflationary influences"

Copyright Infringement = Bank Account Infringement

[B_SharpC]

It is easy to stop copyright infringement.
Similarly, bank account infringement is currently halted.

Pirates love the protection they get from their own bank account infringement.
But when authors want the same protection for their IP property from pirates, the pirates cry.

You cannot have it both ways. Laws must be equal and reciprocal.