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UK Musicians Back Watered-Down "Three-Strikes" Rule
A brace of anonymous readers sent along coverage of UK musicians who have turned around to support three strikes, or a milder variant of it. What they suggest is more like "three strikes and you're hobbled" — after a third offense a downloader would be not disconnected, but rate-limited. The artists involved include Lily Allen, George Michael, and Sandie Shaw. The Guardian has more details. The final quote from the music industry, striking out at UK ISPs, is priceless: "BT is clinging on to an old business model which is supported by illegal downloading. That's not only unfair to artists and creators, but penalizes BT's many customers who use the Internet legally."
It's about time someone spoke truth to power.
Illegal downloads hurt all of us in bandwidth throughput, additional cost at the record store, and the total marring of the reputation of P2P technology.
I support the 3 strikes law and, oh yeah, I love to suck dicks. Lots and lots of dicks. In fact, fistfuls of cocks. And, oh yeah, my music FUCKING SUCKS. Who in their right mind would actually buy that horrendous shite, much less download it illegally. Jesus H. Fuckng Christ. Don't people have any sodding taste in music these days?
And don't get me started on that talentless hack bitch, Lily Allen. I shit better music than that ugly, untalented cunt whore could ever possibly conceive of. Stupid fucking bint.
Sincerely,
George Michael
If you're too stupid to know whether you're breaking the law or not when you go download something off a random website that you know you'd usually have to pay for at a store, you deserve to have your internet taken away regardless of whetger you actualy broke the law or not.
So Trent Reznor gave you authorization to download is music? BFD, have Trent contact your ISP and get your strike revoked. Oh, whoops! That won't work for half his music, the ones he willingly signed away the rights to so he could instantly cash in and now has no right to let people download.
Doesn't give me the right to lobby congress to pass laws
Ever hear of the Bill of Rights? You can do that and not be arrested! Now, you might get called a whore on Slashdot, but this is not a real forum anyway because of the moderators' lack of responsibility. It has become an advocacy site, where only posts consistent with the viewpoints of the file sharers get presented for discussion.
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