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Well, I was watching TV and panorama came on, telling me about piracy. Apparently, in UK, there will be new laws to stop pirates. My question is, are they allowed to monitor my internet access, and throttle or cut off my internet? Thanks.
 

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SimpyDsi said:
Well, I was watching TV and panorama came on, telling me about piracy. Apparently, in UK, there will be new laws to stop pirates. My question is, are they allowed to monitor my internet access, and throttle or cut off my internet? Thanks.
apparently i always hear of mmore people getting caught in europe for piracy and stuff..so.........yeah like those german raids....yeah
 

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If they start monitoring your internet than there would be a huge civil rights violation thing. Odds are the laws just enforce tougher penalties and screw over more uploaders. The thing with piracy is that governments don't go after downloaders. Think of it as weeds in the sidewalk. You can cut them with scissors, but they'll just grow back. Not until tear out the root (aka the uploaders) that they'll stop growing. And if governments already do monitor the internet without our knowledge, they won't blow it wide open to crack down on some kiddies who want to listen to some rad tunes for free. They'd only do it if it was a national security threat, like a terrorist talking with his cohorts over the internet. I haven't checked the new laws but I'd assume they won't really do much.
 

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Cool, thanks guys.
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Mostly uploaders get caught, they don't care that much about the downloaders. Uploading is the only way for a file to be spread across the web, so if they get to the source of the uploaders they get the downloaders too, in a way.
 

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pretty much +1 on whats been said.
However, I have heard cases of mass downloaders getting sprung, i mean like, this guys that have servers open constantly downloading from places etc etc.

But yeah, Its mainly uploaders
 

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If you're concerned about being monitored, you could ditch torrents, or whatever you're using, and move onto usenet with ssl encryption.
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Guild McCommunist said:
If they start monitoring your internet than there would be a huge civil rights violation thing. Odds are the laws just enforce tougher penalties and screw over more uploaders. The thing with piracy is that governments don't go after downloaders. Think of it as weeds in the sidewalk. You can cut them with scissors, but they'll just grow back. Not until tear out the root (aka the uploaders) that they'll stop growing. And if governments already do monitor the internet without our knowledge, they won't blow it wide open to crack down on some kiddies who want to listen to some rad tunes for free. They'd only do it if it was a national security threat, like a terrorist talking with his cohorts over the internet. I haven't checked the new laws but I'd assume they won't really do much.

They were planning on employing a third party company to spy on people and giving any rights holders the ability to block a website in the UK merely by accusing them of infringing their rights.

yes it is a huge civil rights violation but they'll do it anyway because the current government just wants to screw this country up as much as they can

Guy who proposed the plan wasn't even an elected official ffs, just a guy getting behind the scenes payments from the big companies.
 

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