UK file-sharers to be 'cut off'

[Daggers]

The government has published new measures that could see people who illegally download films and music cut off from the net.

Source

Like it could work! In a world which is becoming increasingly wireless, nothing will stop you from getting your files in town.

Mandelson is going to cut off McDonalds from the internet is he? What a tit.

[lavrentis]

Just some more scare tactics from the government.

[AoWW]

Can't imagine this would impinge on anyone on here. We're all

[James.]

I've just sent Daggers' IP address directly to Peter Mandelson. I think it's important to make a stand and "blow the whistle" on any known file sharers.

[breadandcheese]

Does this new proposal not breach human rights? I'm sure there was something about this being a breach of human rights (I'm looking towards Foxestalk's resident legal expert Lisa on this one).

Edit: Just found what I was looking for. Sarkozy tried to bring a similar law in France, but a French court held it in breach of Human Rights as laid out in their constitution, or something. Obviously this is France, not the UK, so I guess it doesn't apply, but will probably be challenged within a European court at some point if the government pushes ahead.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne...icle6478542.ece

[Joe.]

I bought the Arctic Monkeys album today. My moral levels have risen from zero to the dizzy heights of one now.

[Bellend Sebastian]

This isn't much of a threat.

At the very least they should face being tarred and feathered, and ideally sent to Tasmania for hard labour if there is to be any hope of them mending their wicked, wicked ways

[AoWW]

This isn't much of a threat.

At the very least they should face being tarred and feathered, and ideally sent to Tasmania for hard labour if there is to be any hope of them mending their wicked, wicked ways

I could do with a holiday.

[Part Of The Crowd]

I always buy the music I download as some sort of recompense, but I do admit to downloading the music occasionally if I either cannot afford the CD at the time (rare) or it is 'pre release' as I shall say it. File sharing cannot be outlawed unless the people sharing the files are doing so for a charge if I remember the last big debate on it correctly.

[Bellend Sebastian]

I could do with a holiday.

A holiday of good honest toil under the sun of Van Diemen's land can only bring one closer to God and make them rise above the station of the lowly criminal

[Daggers]

Internet service providers (ISPs) have reacted with anger to new proposals on how to tackle internet piracy.

Source

*Bam*

[MC Prussian]

I actually bought an MP3 album the legal way today.

Shocking.

[Daggers]

I'm evil - I'm destroying music.

[StanSP]

I actually bought an MP3 album the legal way today.

Shocking.

Traitor.

[Edmund]

At the end of the day it is now part and parcel of the industry and there is no point in battling it. Look around this forum for example people give out music illegally without anyone seeing any wrong in it yet calling

someone a cunt gets you banned. Go figure. The major labels had it good for so long and it was bound to come to an end. I feel sorry for the smaller independent labels as these guys struggle to make a

living off record sales but saying that these days you can still make decent wedge from live performance and music is just now a marketing tool to get people to your events. I think it is sad but its now part of our

culture so you have to make means.

It doesn't bother me though because without sounding smug it filters out the true music fans. I mean if you download a track you get a shitty mp3 encoded at a shitty bit rate which to most people is good enough to

listen to, but to me all I can hear is the flaws and the missing frequencies. It amazes me that Ive seen people on this forum asking how to record tunes from youtube!! I mean come on youtube audio is shite. It is

completely compressed and squashed down that it has no depth left. Then you have us geeks who spend thousands of pounds on our hi fi and equipment who wouldn't dare put a shitty encoded mp3 near our

system yet only demand mp3 at 320kbs min, wav/aif or vinyl so we can hear the music as it suppose to sound which means opening your wallet which I will do everytime.

So in summary I say let the fools have there free mp3's as it is shite anyway and there only going to be playing it through a shitty Aiwa system or tinny computer speakers that they wouldn't know any better.

[Darkzzz_]

That is big black sweaty bollocks.

I will admit you have to be a complete idiot to download such garbage from Limewire but if you source the music correctly you can get top notch MP3's and other media for that matter. I should know, my external holds shit loads of it.

[AjcW]

That is big black sweaty bollocks.

I will admit you have to be a complete idiot to download such garbage from Limewire but if you source the music correctly you can get top notch MP3's and other media for that matter. I should know, my external holds shit loads of it.

I get some fantastic quality from limewire.

And I dont get viruses being on a mac.

You only get the occasional duff music on there that skips.

[Edmund]

That is big black sweaty bollocks.

I will admit you have to be a complete idiot to download such garbage from Limewire but if you source the music correctly you can get top notch MP3's and other media for that matter. I should know, my external holds shit loads of it.

Thats basically my point. Music to most people is now disposable and just a lost file on a small box where as to me I like the whole physical aspect. Theres nothing better than getting a fresh vinyl through the post and admiring everything from the artwork to the smell of that bad boy.

[Edmund]

I get some fantastic quality from limewire.

And I dont get viruses being on a mac.

You only get the occasional duff music on there that skips.

What music system do you use out of interest? And also I would be careful there is a mac trojan doing the rounds on limewire. http://news.softpedia.com/news/It-039-s-Of...ose-88472.shtml

[Darkzzz_]

Thats basically my point. Music to most people is now disposable and just a lost file on a small box where as to me I like the whole physical aspect. Theres nothing better than getting a fresh vinyl through the post and admiring everything from the artwork to the smell of that bad boy.

Fair point if you like that. I just see CD's as taking up space.

Much prefer to have all of my content in an easy accessible place for me to use when and how I like.

Edit: I said all of "my" content. I meant all of the free content.

[Edmund]

Fair point if you like that. I just see CD's as taking up space.

Much prefer to have all of my content in an easy accessible place for me to use when and how I like.

Edit: I said all of "my" content. I meant all of the free content.

No thats cool each to there own. Let me ask you a question though as your a graphic designer/photographer, would you rather have a picture on your computer or blown up on a canvas.

[AjcW]

What music system do you use out of interest? And also I would be careful there is a mac trojan doing the rounds on limewire. http://news.softpedia.com/news/It-039-s-Of...ose-88472.shtml

Somewhat unsurprisingly Itunes .

[Edmund]

Somewhat unsurprisingly Itunes .

No I mean what speaker set up have you got?

[Bellend Sebastian]

I apologise for posting two Daily Mash links in a day, but they do make me larf:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/busines...7-200908262011/

[The Reverend]

At the end of the day it is now part and parcel of the industry and there is no point in battling it. Look around this forum for example people give out music illegally without anyone seeing any wrong in it yet calling

someone a cunt gets you banned. Go figure. The major labels had it good for so long and it was bound to come to an end. I feel sorry for the smaller independent labels as these guys struggle to make a

living off record sales but saying that these days you can still make decent wedge from live performance and music is just now a marketing tool to get people to your events. I think it is sad but its now part of our

culture so you have to make means.

It doesn't bother me though because without sounding smug it filters out the true music fans. I mean if you download a track you get a shitty mp3 encoded at a shitty bit rate which to most people is good enough to

listen to, but to me all I can hear is the flaws and the missing frequencies. It amazes me that Ive seen people on this forum asking how to record tunes from youtube!! I mean come on youtube audio is shite. It is

completely compressed and squashed down that it has no depth left. Then you have us geeks who spend thousands of pounds on our hi fi and equipment who wouldn't dare put a shitty encoded mp3 near our

system yet only demand mp3 at 320kbs min, wav/aif or vinyl so we can hear the music as it suppose to sound which means opening your wallet which I will do everytime.

So in summary I say let the fools have there free mp3's as it is shite anyway and there only going to be playing it through a shitty Aiwa system or tinny computer speakers that they wouldn't know any better.

I agree with that, but you can download music @ 320kbps now.... it's all I ever download. Obviously Limewire is gash and I would never use that to get music.