Yet more crackdown on illegal downloading
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memorium said:
It got axed a couple of days ago ;_;
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It's been ******* passed...
what the **** is this ****? swear moar! Freedom has taken a heavy blow imo. The UK is in steady decline anyway with crime and stuff, so we can all have fun becoming the new Australia. Great... All that will happen is people will stop buying altogether and they won't want to buy because of the hiked prices. Leave things how they are! Also other possible implications of this could be media for games and what not possibly they could go as far as count rightclick>save as 'downloading'.
'Great' Britain my ass.
It's been ******* passed...
what the **** is this ****? swear moar! Freedom has taken a heavy blow imo. The UK is in steady decline anyway with crime and stuff, so we can all have fun becoming the new Australia. Great... All that will happen is people will stop buying altogether and they won't want to buy because of the hiked prices. Leave things how they are! Also other possible implications of this could be media for games and what not possibly they could go as far as count rightclick>save as 'downloading'.
'Great' Britain my ass.
Project-2501
Straw Hat Pirate
Ryo Chan said:
Thats something else. ACS: Law have basically been fishing for rubes for quite a while.
People won't stop buying stuff. And leechers won't stop freeloading.
Can they "get" you if you only download? When I want something, I tend to get it from file hosting sites like HotFile and MegaUpload? How can they tell the difference as to whether I'm acquiring something legally or not? I've downloaded stuff my mates have uploaded on them before. Everything is so unclear.
Jayme said:
ISPs count what you Upload as "Download" for the sake of their packages. So should you have a 40GB download limit, and you download 20GB of torrent files (following "etiquette" in which you upload at least the same amount you download) then in theory, your download limit will be up. So, from this, it's pretty obvious how ISP's can tell the worst ones. Downloading a 20GB discography, and then uploading it is waving a big "I'm a pirate!" flag really. So, I should imagine it would be harder to catch you if you get via DDL.
However the big issue here is no-one knows what we could be "got" for. Since this is just a Parent Act, it means we're gonna recieve a bit of Delegated Legislation off of the Secretary of State (I do believe that's whom the power is being passed to. I may need to double check). This means that he's gonna have a lot of power to make legislation that will go (effectively) unquestioned by Parliament unless someones appeals against conviction. Best thing we can do is hope that when this Legislation to come through, then allow a bunch of guys with good lawyers who've been "had" to prove the Legislation has gone ultra vires (assuming the Sec. of State abuses power) or that it's not compatible with the European Convention of Human Rights. If either of these happen, a doctrine of incompatibility will (hopefully) be issued, and the Government are back to square 1 for a while. (It wont take so long to re-write the legislation though).
Sorry for the Law jargon above.
TL;DR - Chances are the legislation will impose stupid and desperate laws. The judges will just declare it incompatible. Then the Government and Parliament have to try and get more legislation through.