The All Party Communications Group (apComms), an independent group of Members of Parliament and Lords in the UK, has released a report blaming record labels for their own losses from illegal file sharing.
In their report, the group wrote "We conclude that much of the problem with illegal sharing of copyrighted material has been caused by the rightsholders, and the music industry in particular, ... [ read the full article ]
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WoW Thats restored some of my faith in Parliament... at last there are some MP's out there not talking as a puppet for the media maffia... or was it all their way of aking to be one and get some back handers.. maybe there are not all like Lord Mandelson after all... or are they.
Can see a might boosh joke forming there lol.
But seriously WPA is already compromised, ok its takes a lot longer and with a strong key it would take years, but reconfiguring 100's of routers for customers in the past i would say 10 percent of people who self install use no security 40 percent use WEP normally due to peope having old equiptment or pre configured routers and lack of experience an 50% on wpa. Those on wpa i would say 20 percent are using seriously week passwords which with a dictonary attack would fall sooner than later.. i know when i looked last time a lot of work had been done with rainbow tables.. so even some of the more complex passwords could be obtained.
I hope this report actually gets listened to, with the ISP basically saying the same (probably due to the costs implicatios if a 3SL (Three Strike Law).
To be honest im sure if mr golden balls (david cameron) whats to seriously win the next electrion one of the best ways would to increase votes would be to also join side with this report and the ISP's
Bring back tony he didnt give a hoot and long as we let him play army half way round the world... note thats not an advocation of war (just an observance) and now we stuck with Credit Crunch Brownie.
Who one week says one week he will look into prosecution of MP's who over stepped the mark on expense claims, 3 - 4 days later we hear that he and others have just been told to pay back yet more expenses... no word yet if hes planning to prosecute himself, lol
This is such a tricky issue. At times it appears when you read an article like this opposing some kind of legislation from coming into play due to saying it is the fault of the music companies for not acting quick enough to counter illicit filesharing, some people out there might think that they are being given a green light to use and abuse their internet connections for the use of p2p.
It needs to be said that filesharing is still wrong regardless but at the same time, disconnecting end users of the internet will not do anything but build bad PR for the ISPs, the government and the music industry. I doubt that should the most hardcore illegal filesharers have their p2p services taken from them that they are going to submit to the music companies by purchasing overpriced music...i think the most serious infringers are of the mindset now of thinking they expect music and film for free and so if the music industry stops their 'fun' so to speak, then they will not line the pockets of the music execs either
This is a very interesting time for all parties involved
