Ireland is alot more laid back and generally can be a nicer atmosphere. HOWEVER it is much more of a nanny state and may closely follow this ID scheme, the only reason i don't see it adapting it, is if it isn't done so in europe.
Btw i'm in Northern Ireland (rather than the Republic) you can pretty much get away with whatever you want up here regardless if it's brought into UK law or not as long as you don't mind living in a shithole of a country
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To my knowledge the BPI have not taken much action on the basic downloader, it has/is currently taking on the newly growing business of pirated dvds (most of which are simply downloaded and converted). I think we are to media driven over here for the BPI to be as ruthless as the RIAA and MPAA, they couldn't stand the bad press as much, because the uk loves its piracy it seems.
As for the fall of torrent sites and P2P in general, music and movies were being distributed before alot of these were popular and people got what they needed, assuming they knew how, prehaps thats the way it should stay, those with a basic knowledge rather than any tom dick and harry that can use a computer, jesus even 80 year old dead women can get their warez it seems;)
N.B. I'm not 100% sure on the BPI situation, prehaps the media hasn't latched on as much as they have with the RIAA, hence why I haven't seen much.
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Ireland is alot more laid back and generally can be a nicer atmosphere. HOWEVER it is much more of a nanny state and may closely follow this ID scheme, the only reason i don't see it adapting it, is if it isn't done so in europe. Btw i'm in Northern Ireland (rather than the Republic) you can pretty much get away with whatever you want up here regardless if it's brought into UK law or not as long as you don't mind living in a shithole of a country
To my knowledge the BPI have not taken much action on the basic downloader, it has/is currently taking on the newly growing business of pirated dvds (most of which are simply downloaded and converted). I think we are to media driven over here for the BPI to be as ruthless as the RIAA and MPAA, they couldn't stand the bad press as much, because the uk loves its piracy it seems. As for the fall of torrent sites and P2P in general, music and movies were being distributed before alot of these were popular and people got what they needed, assuming they knew how, prehaps thats the way it should stay, those with a basic knowledge rather than any tom dick and harry that can use a computer, jesus even 80 year old dead women can get their warez it seems ;)
N.B. I'm not 100% sure on the BPI situation, prehaps the media hasn't latched on as much as they have with the RIAA, hence why I haven't seen much.