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'3 Strikes' legislation moving to the full EU
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article published on 4 July, 2008
Earlier this year, it was reported that both the UK and France were planning a "3 Strikes" plan that would ban alleged file sharers from the Internet after three warnings.
Although the legislation has still not gone to a vote, there has been word that a few UK ISPs are voluntarily working with the record industry to come to arrangements that could possibly include a 3 strikes rule. Of ... [ read the full article ]
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windsong
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4. July 2008 @ 16:34 |
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And it starts..
So I guess um..that peeps who get banned from the internet and keep signing up for other ISPs will have to be tracked and monitored? Like sex offenders? Right??
Methinks a revolution is brewing..
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varnull
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4. July 2008 @ 17:00 |
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You should all know my feelings on this subject. I have been talking to a few Russians about the implications of some ip bombs on the UK isp's who think they can take our rights away.
The war is coming, and it will change the world.
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4. July 2008 @ 18:30 |
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There will be no war. Don't forget that most people are sheep who don't give a damn about their rights and the fact that they're being monitored and spied on, as long as they have their feeling of false security given by extra surveillance. I rather expect the golden age of Darknets to come.
(Read this free book: Cory Doctorow - Little Brother. I just did (in one night - it's a good book), and I feel it's kind of relevant to the topic at hand.)
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5. July 2008 @ 00:26 |
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HEIL!!
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5. July 2008 @ 03:47 |
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here is how i feel.
I dont care.
I aint never gonna care.
And for BT to stop me filesharing they're gonna have to put a bomb in my pc and whizz it off the Baxter Building.
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5. July 2008 @ 11:48 |
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hmm...now i thank god israel did not sign on into the EU
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varnull
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5. July 2008 @ 11:58 |
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You will care when your internet gets cut off for something you haven't done.
As for the defeatest knobhead who doesn't believe there will be a war.. watch out.. they are coming for you too. The few of us who KNOW how the internet works, and who it belongs to will cause the kind of chaos from public access points that the isp's will not be able to deal with.
remember how the nazis and mugabe do what they do? People who can stand up and protest just being pathetic and blaming the majority who don't understand the implications.. This goes deeper than p2p.. it involves the removal of basic rights at the say of big business and NOT at the say of our elected representatives. It is a europe wide charter to spy and invade privacy.. monitoring and social control by fear.. backed up with the moves in the rest of the law to only allow "approved" applications to run on the internet.. so what happens if Fista isn't approved, or firefox, or IE or whatever else you want to name... YUP.. you got it.. buy what we allow you to, and use it in the way we say, or you can't have any.. Do they own the internet?? NO.. we do.
I have sent 35 emails to my (labour so no f-ing hope there) euro mp.. don't expect any answer.. he's probably sunning himself on some south sea island at our expense!!
Protest., complain and rattle the bars.. this is about more than a bit of filesharing.. it's about a totalitarian superstate which has total access to every piece of information about YOU!!
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5. July 2008 @ 12:47 |
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varnull
this is so true we have to care abotu fair use, and ISPs going overboard it wont take much for them to screw up so much so easily.
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5. July 2008 @ 14:01 |
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The BBC is covering this and has a video from an innocent virgin letter recipient via the link.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7486743.stm
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Warning letters to 'file-sharers'
Virgin Media has sent about 800 letters to customers warning them that they should not be downloading illegal music files via file-sharing sites.
It is part of a 10-week campaign it is running in conjunction with the BPI to "educate" users about downloads.
The BPI, the body which represents the UK record industry, told the BBC that "thousands more letters" would be sent.
Its stricter stance on illegal downloaders might result in some ISPs being taken to court, it told BBC News.
The BPI wants all UK ISPs to sign up to a so-called three strikes policy - where users of file sharing networks get two warnings and are then disconnected if they are sharing copyright files.
So far only Virgin Media has officially signed up and it is keen to stress that currently it is running an education-only campaign and that no-one has been thrown off the network.
Virgin said the wording on the envelope which contains the warning letter sent to 800 customers - which threatens consumers with disconnection - was a "mistake".
The last quote is great, how could it possibly be "a mistake" and is it not defamation of character having the threat all over the front of the envelope, maybe virgin should go to their homes and paint "thief" all over their walls but i suppose the RIAA (BPI is the same goons) has never got it wrong and accused dead ppl or ppl that it has been proved have never owned a pc or even had an internet connection, this is nothing short of Libel. Libel in the UK is a civil and/or criminal offence, maybe Virgin have opened a huge can of worms here.
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BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor told BBC News that the body was prepared to back up the education campaign with legal action, including taking ISPs to court.
"If we have to go to court, we will go to court and we will win," he said.
One customer who received a letter told BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat programme that he was unhappy with Virgin Media.
Will McGree received a letter in June, warning him that legal action could be taken against him.
He said: "It's doomed to fail. Virgin Media will lose a lot of customers over this because people don't like to be accused of stealing music over their morning coffee.
And the BPI chief tool Geoff Taylor is so sure, have they already paid of the government.
False accusations = mac code now please!
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The BPI admitted that the current mechanisms for selling music were "broken".
The new strategy will see it negotiating licensed content deals with ISPs who have pursued file sharers.
"We want people to see this not as three strikes and you're out but three strikes and you're in to legitimate music services," said Frederico Bolza, head of strategy at SonyBMG.
Some DRM-free material may be made available and the new subscription models will allow users to keep some of the tunes they download, he said.
and then comes the rhetoric of subscription services, the RIAA's wet dream, sell us all the back catalogue, yet again, while they continue to promote complete talentless crud while and skim all the profits for themselves. Was this their plan when they tried destroy online radio streaming services like pandora b y charging ludicrously high royalties or buying them out like last FM.
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5. July 2008 @ 14:06 |
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F*CK the system, because the system is F*CKing U... i mean that's just wrong in so many ways!!! where's privasy???
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7. July 2008 @ 13:24 |
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Earlier this year, it was reported that both the UK and France were planning a "3 Stikes" plan that would ban alleged file sharers from the Internet after three warnings.
stikes?
:P
MA AHAHAHAHHA *noogies*
Altho I am one to say 30% of my words can be "re done" with a spell checker and I'll only catch half of the new words :P
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7. July 2008 @ 14:21 |
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stikes?
:P
MA AHAHAHAHHA *noogies*
Altho I am one to say 30% of my words can be "re done" with a spell checker and I'll only catch half of the new words :P
I'm keeping my eye on you :P
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9. July 2008 @ 18:59 |
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stikes?
:P
MA AHAHAHAHHA *noogies*
Altho I am one to say 30% of my words can be "re done" with a spell checker and I'll only catch half of the new words :P
I'm keeping my eye on you :P
i dun get it ><
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9. July 2008 @ 19:11 |
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stikes?
:P
MA AHAHAHAHHA *noogies*
Altho I am one to say 30% of my words can be "re done" with a spell checker and I'll only catch half of the new words :P
I'm keeping my eye on you :P
i dun get it ><
Its called word play I jab at him he jabs at me and as long as I keep my idoitness in check I wont be jabbed by the ban hammer ^_~
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varnull
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9. July 2008 @ 19:26 |
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9. July 2008 @ 19:26 |
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If you "dun" get it, then "dun" post.
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9. July 2008 @ 19:28 |
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Originally posted by Ripper:
If you "dun" get it, then "dun" post.
still not behaving? :X
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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varnull
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9. July 2008 @ 19:31 |
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There is a very important subject here. VERY IMPORTANT! to our basic rights and freedoms.. This must not be allowed to pass onto the European statutes.
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9. July 2008 @ 19:34 |
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Originally posted by varnull:
There is a very important subject here. VERY IMPORTANT! to our basic rights and freedoms.. This must not be allowed to pass onto the European statutes.
The trouble is it probably will sheeple apathy leads itself to the slaughter more than anything else,hopefully it will create a temporary political awaking and it will be over turned.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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9. July 2008 @ 19:35 |
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
Originally posted by Ripper:
If you "dun" get it, then "dun" post.
still not behaving? :X
Pardon?
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9. July 2008 @ 19:36 |
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
Originally posted by Ripper:
If you "dun" get it, then "dun" post.
still not behaving? :X
Pardon?
Just a playful jab ^^
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9. July 2008 @ 19:41 |
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Right.. I don't think I said anything out of line ^.~
Please tell me otherwise ;-)
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9. July 2008 @ 19:44 |
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Originally posted by Ripper:
Right.. I don't think I said anything out of line ^.~
Please tell me otherwise ;-)
Oh so you are not behaving normally then? :P
no no your fine ^_~
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varnull
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10. July 2008 @ 12:45 |
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oh FFS.. can't we discuss the subject with out all this pointless crap..
Forget it.. just close it because people obviously don't give a flying f--k about their basic privacy rights.
When the thought police come through your door don't expect me to speak out for you.
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10. July 2008 @ 12:54 |
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Originally posted by varnull:
oh FFS.. can't we discuss the subject with out all this pointless crap..
Forget it.. just close it because people obviously don't give a flying f--k about their basic privacy rights.
When the thought police come through your door don't expect me to speak out for you.
Down girl down I know you are frustrated at this travesty but it comes down to the care factor of the public it always dose if they wont rally agisnt it then they come part of it like with Germany and the Nazis, you might be able to topple it with enough support but without it theres nothign you can do other than rally and protest and hold meetings to get the word out that this BS is corporate villainy!
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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