Net pirates to be disconnected:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8328820.stm
I’d be interested to hear what you guys think about this (hey, that’s what your blogs are for 
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October 28, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Legal downloads are killing piracy!! Well we’ll just have to download as much as possible until this kicks in.
October 30, 2009 at 8:06 pm
I think it will be very hard to enforce for a start.
Secondly, I am sure “web pirates” will find a way of getting around the problem to continue as normal.
I think the only way to stop copyright laws being broken so easily on the web, is to change the way in which the market works already. The cost of official downloading is very expensive, and is a similar price to the hard copy you can buy in the shops. Considering the download option is considerably less to provide, perhaps reducing the cost would be an option, to help win people over to the legitimate downloading route.
November 2, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I have to agree with the people against the “three-strikes”.
I believe that the con’s weigh out the pro’s. The pro that I see is it may have some affect on people downloading music / films / information illegally, which will ultimately lead to more money being put into buying music and films and therefore more money back into the UK economy. But on that basis I just see it for Mandelson to put another money-making law into practice rather than looking at the overall impact of this law being put into practice.
Several things could happen from this law being put into practice, one of these being that WE have to pay more for the usage of internet. ISP will not be willing to pay up the extra costs to monitor download levels of their customers. Additionally there is no way to check whether these download levels are consistant with illegal file sharing. These people may be legally paying for electronic media, watching free legal media (i.e. BBC’s iplayer, or 4oD), or even by playing online games. Therefore this cost will either be brought through higher costs for us to use the internet (to cover the monitoring), the cost will be government subsidised (which in this economic climate seems ridiculous or another law will be enforced that all ISP have to monitor download usages of their customers.
The other problem that may arise from the “three-strike” law is that people could hack into peoples computers to use their internet connection to avoid the penalties. The knowledge is there to do this and people could see a large rise in more hacking based crimes (which in my opinion is a more serious threat to people).
Well thats just what i think anyway.
Tom
November 5, 2009 at 12:38 pm
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