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Cinderella's Shoe
15-Feb-08, 20:58
See

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7246403.stm

Yippeeeee!
Metalattakk
16-Feb-08, 00:42
What's your point, caller?
Cinderella's Shoe
16-Feb-08, 12:47
What's your point, caller?

No big brother to be enforced. Freedom to download what you want.

Check out http://thepiratebay.org/

Shiver me timbers!!!!!
johndh
16-Feb-08, 14:00
No big brother to be enforced. Freedom to download what you want.

Check out http://thepiratebay.org/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://thepiratebay.org/)

Shiver me timbers!!!!!
If only that were true. Applications like Bittorent and the like, broadcast your ip address all over the net. I know for sure that these are monitored by some of the big games and film distributors. Once they have your ip address, they can identify your ISP and write to them. Usually this results in the end user also getting a letter :~(

Basically your ISP sees everything and everywhere you go on the 'net. All they are saying at the moment, is that they are not going to share that with anyone, unless the request has court order on the end of it.
Metalattakk
16-Feb-08, 14:01
This is only the first step in the process. If the ISPs don't bring in procedures to deal with piracy, then the government will force them. Of course, when the new anonymous torrent protocols are introduced, the gate will be wide open and the horse long gone.

Why can't the music and film industries realise that their business models are out-dated and redundant, and move with the times?
johndh
16-Feb-08, 14:13
This is only the first step in the process. If the ISPs don't bring in procedures to deal with piracy, then the government will force them. Of course, when the new anonymous torrent protocols are introduced, the gate will be wide open and the horse long gone.

Why can't the music and film industries realise that their business models are out-dated and redundant, and move with the times?
I feel it's going to be a 'cat and mouse' game until a sensible arrangement comes along between ISP's and the entertainment industry.