UK Government To Terminate File Sharers' Net Access 411
An anonymous reader writes "New plans published by the UK Govt show that they hope to terminate internet access for people suspected of breaching copyright by file sharing. Under the proposed new laws ISPs who fail to enforce the policy will face prosecution in the courts. Users falling foul of the new law will be subject to a three strike policy: First suspected instance of illegal file sharing they would receive a warning, at the second — a suspension, and at the third they will have their Internet connection terminated. It isn't clear whether users will be prevented from ever using the internet again, or whether simply subscribing to a new ISP will reset the process."
Bittorrent already blocked (Score:5, Informative)
I've fixed it now, but I'm not impressed that Pipex see BitTorrent as a cancer that needs to be cut out, and if anything innocent goes with it, then that's OK because it's for the greater good.
Re:Ummmm (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Ummmm (Score:5, Informative)
I can see my ISP's point, but they're making my life difficult.
Consultation Paper (Score:4, Informative)
Perhaps if a few thousand people respond to that as well as complaining on the Internet, it may help stop such laws (not that the Government is obliged to listen to consultation responses, but it's one possible way of opposing new laws, and makes it harder for the Government to claim there is public support).
Re:Ummmm (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Ummmm (Score:5, Informative)
A better answer is for the content industry to come up with a new business model. Obviously the world has changed and their old one doesn't work anymore.
Re:The next step (Score:2, Informative)
Freenet has totally encryption connections between peers, and although your direct peers can see the data packets going between them and you, they don't know if you are initiating them yourself, or just routing for another node in the network. And if even that is too risky for you, you can restrict your direct peers to a list of people you know and trust (aka: darknet).
If you tried Freenet a year or two ago and found it slow or difficult to use, try it out again. There are thousands of users now and a lot more filesharing, and speeds, memory usage and user-friendliness have improved dramatically.
The Open Rights Group (ORG) (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Whoopee (Score:3, Informative)
In fact, most recently the police have added lapsiporno.info to the list, which is a site criticizing the filter list and maintaining a list of known blocked sites. The block came into effect after the maintainer decided to test the limits of the law and added the option to view the sitelist as a list of direct links instead of just seeing the URLs typed out. The police won't comment on any specific site on the filter list, but they do say that the law enables them to block sites containing illegal pornography with minors, or sites linking to such sites. The text of the law actually seems to contain no such provision about linking, and also states that the filtering is to be applied only to sites based outside Finland, presumably with the idea that sites in
My ISP doesn't fortunately use any filtering, and the usual method of bypassing the ISP's DNS servers will work, but still. Interesting times.