UK ISPs lose file-sharing appeal

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BT and TalkTalk lose file-sharing appeal

BT and TalkTalk have lost an appeal over controversial measures to tackle copyright infringement online.

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The internet service providers (ISPs) had argued the UK's Digital Economy Act was incompatiable with EU law.

The Act will mean ISPs will have to send warning letters to alleged illegal file downloaders, as well as potentially cutting users off.

The creative industry argues that piracy costs £400m a year in lost revenue.

The firms' lawyers said the stricter measures could result in an invasion of privacy and run up disproportionate costs for both ISPs and consumers.

Today's decision was welcomed by copyright advocates.

Christine Payne, general secretary of the Actors' union Equity, called on the ISPs to "stop fighting and start obeying the law".

"Once again the court is on the side of the almost two million workers in the creative industries whose livelihoods are put at risk because creative content is stolen on a daily basis," she said.



6 March 2012 Last updated at 10:09
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What an utter waste of money and easily circumvented with an encrypted tunnel...
 
well i'll be keeping doing it until they cut me off, then i'll use the neighbors until they cut off his lol

My point was that you won't need to. There's plenty of tools around to encrypt data transmission in such a manner as to render it virtually impossible to determine what you are doing or even who you are. 3DES encryption using 256-bit keys would take millions of years to crack, even on a Cray...

I suspect file sharing will move towards a combination of VPN, certificate exchange, anonymity and darknet.

Hence, all the machinations of courts etc. is a complete waste of time and money...
 
My point was that you won't need to. There's plenty of tools around to encrypt data transmission in such a manner as to render it virtually impossible to determine what you are doing or even who you are. 3DES encryption using 256-bit keys would take millions of years to crack, even on a Cray...

I suspect file sharing will move towards a combination of VPN, certificate exchange, anonymity and darknet.

Hence, all the machinations of courts etc. is a complete waste of time and money...

Makes it all a bit of a pain though - if it is implemented.
 
Makes it all a bit of a pain though - if it is implemented.

Oh ye of little faith lol

Once upon a time sending an attachment on e-mail was a major exercise, converting the attachment to MIME-compliant goobledegook and copying it into the e-mail body...

...now, you just click and point.

It will become, click to install darknet client, click to generate your certificate, click OK to connect to darknet.................
 
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