At least thats the threat of a recent consultation paper that proposes making Internet Service Providers monitor internet connections for people downloading illegal content and files. Effectively providing a 3 strike rule and then your banned from the net.
Apart from the idiocy of attempting to monitor such connections and content there is the ridiculous belief that ISPS want to be made accountable for monitoring their content ( they dont )
More annoying is that yet again we see a Govt willing to support a business whose market and ideas have long since moved on after the Internet genie escaped from its bottle. Why dont they invest time in protecting consumers and investing legislation in protecting rather than restricting our right.
grrr of sussex
they'll never keep me out of the hinterweb
i was clever.
a while ago I went and got myself one of those Broadband type high speed gofasterstriped modem things.
here's the science bit:
On the top, is a small, but adequate grill/vent.
I shall loosen the grill, american prison drama stylee (they are always loose), and simply drop down into net... and crawl as far and as wide as is my want.
oh yes
lp
thats sounds like a solid plan. Beware the net nazis though. They prowl the Tinterwebs in search of stray users and then harang them all evening for their inappropriate use of a past participle.
Just download all your illegal copyrighted stuff at someone elses house.
Er, I mean, don't do it.
I think they should use this idea to track down peedos though. I'm sure most people wouldn't have a problem with that.
Seems like another dumb and wasteful intention. The idea being to catch punters who use the internet, during which time the illegal practices have a short but effective lifespan.
The answer is to penalise the ISP if its discovered they are hosting an illegal web site. They would then check their customers more closely.
Such companies are currently making a fortune, so they have enough resources to effectively monitor themselves.
its too late for companies to start going about stopping people using the net.
peer-2-peer programs are here to stay and the more ways they work out how to block them,the more ways people will find to share files.
I think the proposed ban is in an attempt to crack down on the downloading of music etc., it's costing the music industry an absolute fortune.
ops: :oops: Found out... damn!!
