S92a

[Mikkel]

I'd be interested to find out that if the copyright holder of LOTR is so concerned about it being downloaded why it isn't out there poisoning all torrents that contain it.

Poison? You mean like vira and such. If they did that and got caught they would be in big trouble...

Surely replacing a few key scenes of the film with a section that asks the viewer to buy the origonal (if they were real bastards they'f do this over the entire last 20 minutes of each film (or 1hour 20 in the case of the last one))

I see what you're getting at. Actually, there have been suspected cases of entrapment where the copyright holders provide a torrent for this or that movie and chuck it on air. The achieve files that the torrent points to are intentionally corrupted so as to be useless, but made to look like the real deal. Then they sit down and wait and record the IP of everyone using said torrent and then they drag them off to court. This is the kind of conduct that I was talking about before...

[James Deuce]

But...can they REALLY monitor much of what people are accessing from home? I mean, would they really bother. Think about it, they advertise these larger and larger internet packages (remember when 1GB was a HUGE deal?). Now a standard base package is 10GB. If everyone were to stop downloading suddenly the ISP's would not need to provide the same sort of packages, people would all swap to much smaller plans and the ISP's revenue would fall.

(for the record, I am not one of those people, mostly because I can't be arsed downloading...and the risk of viruses etc.)

How much bite is there really in this legislation?

The ISPs aren't the bad guy here and they are as against S92a as the rest of us. They will be required to ban people who are accused of "stealing" copyrighted material.

Yes, they can look at everything you download. Yes, your ISP does know how much porn you surf.

The UK is on the verge of implementing a law change that means every email into and out of the legal entity known as the UK will be intercepted and analysed for terrorist and criminal activity including copyright breaches. It's hugely stupid and it will mean that SMTP and POP3 email will become unworkable in the UK.

How much bite does it have? If MIcrosoft says you "downloaded" a VLK from work via email to install MS Office on your PC at home that you use for work, but isn't owned by your employer and Microsoft complains to your ISP, you're out of there. If you go to the BAEN books website and download a pdf of a book, which BAEN frequently allow, but the local distributor for BAEN books disagrees with the parent company's decision to distribute for free, you're out of there.

All the complainant needs is to do is complain to the ISP that your IP address downloaded a proscribed file that was their property and you have no Internet access through the ISP you are currently with. Most file sharing clients use a technique called "address spoofing" so the source and destination addresses are false when checked on an ISP's access log. Problem with that is that innocent people who've never hosted copyrighted material or downloaded through a file sharing network are now legally responsible for that activity because the false log finger prints innocent parties as "criminals".

[yod]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/22...to-be-scrapped

praise be!!

maybe...