Illegal Downloaders "Face Ban", page 1

Illegal Downloaders "Face Ban"

news.bbc.co.uk

People in the UK who go online and illegally download music and films may have their internet access cut under plans the government is considering.

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The BPI said ... "Now is not the time for ISPs to hide behind bogus privacy arguments, or claim the problem is too complicated or difficult to tackle."

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Preventing piracy aside - the bigger issue is the mass-monitoring of all internet traffic, for the purposes of detecting the illegal downloading of music and video. How many ways are there to do this? P2P, direct download, IM and e-mail are the top 4 I can think of.

If they're going to do this in the name of preventing a bit of music piracy on the behalf of a commercial entity, then where will this lead??

This is a serious issue that can have many other uses. Maybe this is just an excuse to get started on the road of monitoring everything said/done online??

What about the BPI and "bogus privacy arguments"?! What I'd like to say to that would get me banned.

Talk about a surveillance society!!!

news.bbc.co.uk
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[edit on 12-2-2008 by mirageofdeceit]

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