Re: [Staffslug] ISP Censorship - The Pirate Bay
That's all fairly close to my logic too.
Once upon a time the ISPs used to have the defence that they only supply the pipes, it
would be like asking the highways agency to stop people transporting stolen goods. Not
sure what happened to that theory but it seems to have gone out of the window.
The other issue that seems to be being missed by "them" is that, as Kevan said,
I could have recorded Game of thrones on my sky+ box, I didn't as I only found out
about it late and therefore I _may_ have downloaded it. This seems like a very fine
distinction, it's something I could have, I just got it via another means.
I also thought this might be of interest,
http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ipod.html
I've not checked the maths personally but it's a good talk.
Gareth
On 27 Jun 2012, at 23:04, Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
hmm, I have read in tonight's paper (Express & Star) that the
ISP's
are going to have to monitor traffic to known file sharing sites.
This was not expanded upon so I don't know if they mean torrent sites
or some of the web sites with links to sharing servers. Quite how
they would do this is another matter as I suspect the numbers would be
quite high. Not too high for computer monitoring but perhaps too high
for human intervention. So they may well go for the high end users,
to start with. Then the proposal is you get three strikes and after
that the 'entertainment industry' is allowed to request your personal
details and they can have a day or two in court with you :(
That was all there was in the report.
So, how do I enable these different DNS servers? Not that I download
anything naughty. Actually I do grab the odd tv show that I have
missed but I bet they wouldn't give a damn about that despite the fact
I could easily have it on my PVR...
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