UK Government Proposes Filesharing Policestate
Posted by: delusional in News, Politics, Tech NewsThe UK government has announced plans to terminate the internet access of UK citizens who use peer-to-peer networks to share files over the web in breach of copyright.
This would mean that ISPs would be required to become an element of the policestate, examining all data sent across their networks. The system is proposed to be a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ operation, the first strike being an emailed warning, the second account suspension and the third, account termination. Quite how the ISPs are expected to filter and examine every packet sent is anybody’s guess and we all know the kind of false-positives that are generated when people or systems start guessing. Of course, this all seems rather ridiculous coming at a time when the recording industry is seeing record sales due to the success of online music retailing.
The ‘content’ industry has been vociferous as usual, wheeling out the usual falsehood that every illegal download = a lost sale.
I was also horrified to see a comment from a BBC Have Your Say user who said “…while I understand that copyright infringement is basically theft…” No! No! No! dammit. Copyright infringement is not theft. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement. If it’s done by the person it’s a civil matter which you can be sued by the copyright holder over. If you infringe copyright commercially (copy then sell) it becomes a criminal matter akin to fraud, not theft.
Just because the ‘content’ industry repeatedly bleats on about piracy and theft, does not mean that UK file sharers are forcing people to walk the plank or breaking into movie studios!
The Internet Service Provider Association points out that UK data protection laws make deep packet inspection illegal and even if it wasn’t, complete monitoring would be economically impossible without driving costs up for UK consumers who already pay over the odds for a sub-par service when compared to much of Europe.
If enacted, this would make the UK one of the most draconian corporate police-states in the world.
Tags: copyright infringement, ispa, law, p2p, peer to peer, uk
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Government
Fancy been caricatured and criticised mercilessly?
Love those benches they got?
Never made a good decision in your life?
Get yourself a suit, cos your going to Westminster
Hello Mrs?
As politicians you’ll spend ages trudging round housing estates getting consistently; laughed at, pelted with and shouted down while campaigning for your party, in fairness, yourself. Take in a long-suffering breath to relentlessly talk to demographics that don’t vote or like you or your party or anything you have or ever will have to say. And now they kinda think that you think that they smell because you’re holding your breath and turning a funny colour of puce.
There is also another type of politician. These pay money to influential people offering their skills as liars to get people into power like Meet and Leek Campbell and Randy Mandelson. If you’re that minted you can buy power It doesn’t matter which party you plum for. So Jehovahs witness or Jehovahs’ credit card details?
Shtick
Everyone’s got a shtick. If you want to be all working class and appeal to the fifty kid mothers of those scall’s who tag n key your car, then get that batter patter down. Talk in some rastastani way, innit. Set up a dealership at your party HQ. Comment on everything other politicians say in the papers with ‘Bwoy that’s proper rank yeah, weeez beat your pale ass down, jenga-ed.’
If your background is more middle class, ask quite ridiculous questions, ride a Sinclair C5, have stupid hair, say misguided things about immigrants and people from northern industrial towns. Get photographed a bit pissed or doing your secretary so they think you have some spunk.
Dress
Forget individual style you must now till your death appear to be selling Central heating at all times. OOooow he’s so shiny. Well, greased.
Babies
Kissing babies is very important and if you’re a paedophile, very rewarding. The practicality is that hopefully the babies you kiss on the way up will be the carers that nurse you on the way down. So slip em the tongue or they’ll slip you an extra large suppository.
Won
After buying voters off with your unimaginable amount of unbelievable and undoable policies you get voted in. Only just in front of the BNP party who in fairness you copied half your manifesto from. With that racist seat and some furrowed brow questioning in parliament people start to take notice, think that you must be some sort of latter-day Enoch Powel with balls bigger than Stephan Hawkins.
After been sat in the seat for what seems to be eternity you ponder just what the hell’s anyone actually is doing here. Resorting to paraphrasing Terry Wogan’s euro vision commentary whenever the E.U. is mentioned. You eventually even stop that, get bitter and find the most abusive way you can attack fellow members of the opposition baring in mind that you have to call them ‘the right honourable gentleman’ before every thusly contradictory statement. The now stagnant party likes your absurd idiocy and when the current prime minister suddenly unquestioningly dies, they put you forward for leader.
And holy moley you win.
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