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UK Downloaders To Face Disconnection
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BBC NEWS | Business | Illegal downloaders 'face UK ban'
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
I'd love to know how they're going to differentiate between folks illegally downloading films and folks legally downloading ISOs.
/ Mutters something under breath about the UK government being a bunch of arseholes.
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It probably won't matter. The ISP will probably claim they have reasonable doubt, or that they're a private business and can choose who to sell to. Some BS like that.
I hope someone makes a major court case out of it.
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I've been telling people in the UK this for years: get the **** out, while you still can.
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Originally Posted by Cipher13 
I've been telling people in the UK this for years: get the **** out, while you still can.
Exactly.
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Only in Amer.... Oh, wait..
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Originally Posted by Doofy
Sounds familiar.. <click>
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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I have no idea how they are going to go about this, nowadays quite alot of people download something illegally without even knowing it.
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That sucks. Especially with the government getting involved. This will create yet another bureaucracy to monitor and enforce these laws.
Guess you guys will have to get encrypted VPN service back to a free country.
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Originally Posted by Doofy
I'd love to know how they're going to differentiate between folks illegally downloading films and folks legally downloading ISOs.
/ Mutters something under breath about the UK government being a bunch of arseholes.
If it's anything like Comcast here in America, they don't differentiate between legal and illegal downloads. They just cut all off.
This is where DSL is much better than a shared Cable service. It doesn't matter what your neighbor is doing, my connection will be just as fast as it always was. Of course, you have to be within a reasonable distance of the CO to get any sort of decent connection. In my area, my choices are shared 6Mbit cable, or an independent 768kbit DSL. Sigh.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
This is where DSL is much better than a shared Cable service. It doesn't matter what your neighbor is doing, my connection will be just as fast as it always was.
Not strictly true. At least not in this neck of the woods - most people on DSL are on at least a 20:1 contention ratio. In theory anyways - it's never kicked in in practice (although a friend has been banned by his ISP from using his DSL line in office hours - apparently he was saturating the whole village's bandwidth  ).
Originally Posted by olePigeon
In my area, my choices are shared 6Mbit cable, or an independent 768kbit DSL. Sigh.
Woot! I'm on 512 kbps DSL. That's it - no other choice (unless I want to stump up $20k for a 1 mbps leased line).
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