UK pirates are getting the boot

by Krosan • 9 Apr 2010, 14:29 • Journals
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/technology/09piracy.html

"The British Parliament on Thursday approved plans to crack down on digital media piracy by authorizing the suspension of repeat offenders’ Internet connections. "

Filesharers in the UK will now lose their interwebs :(
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gambit 9 Apr 2010, 15:37
pitty those fools
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HellHammer 9 Apr 2010, 15:37
AHAHAHAHH GOODBYE PORN DOWNLOADING AHAHA
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Nub 9 Apr 2010, 15:41
Brb, having cup of tea.
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zentic 9 Apr 2010, 15:45
brb , drinking beer
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Deactivated5280 9 Apr 2010, 16:02
theres already plenty of tools which allow you to torrent without leaving tracks. i doubt this will change anything
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clarkee_ 9 Apr 2010, 16:33
can they detect films downloaded off rapidshare /???
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revee 9 Apr 2010, 16:36
cu in jail
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jnz 9 Apr 2010, 16:37
extremely difficult. they can only know you downloaded something from rapidshare but thats not incriminating in itself. and if the .rar has a password its impossible.
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zafoga 9 Apr 2010, 17:29
rapidshare is only logging the IP + the used bandwith as far as i know
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Skydeh 9 Apr 2010, 17:41
Still gotta go through the house of lords and will probably been thrown just like it did in France.

If that does happen, expect it to be a big part of the election process with the torries probably being the only party not to force it in for a while. They were already relunctant at this stage to give their consent.

Plus, what they havent thought about is people who legitimately download stuff from PSN or Xbox live etc. That along with IP spoofing, i doubt it will become a huge issue.
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