UK ISP's asked to voluntarily block 100 P2P cyberlocker sites

We let the Digital Economy Act pass without a fight so i'm sure they'll not have any problems erecting the great firewall of Britain.
 
Dirk said:
We let the Digital Economy Act pass without a fight so i'm sure they'll not have any problems erecting the great firewall of Britain.
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Didn't they sneak it through with barely a word from anyone?
 
Public P2P are screwed but they can still use proxy websites or use Rapidshare/Warrez ? or they could just do what wikileaks does and duplicate the website :)
 
Dirk said:
We let the Digital Economy Act pass without a fight so i'm sure they'll not have any problems erecting the great firewall of Britain.
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From the look of it, this is *nothing* to do with that act, it is the rights owners asking ISPs to block traffic - not parliament. :)

Oh and also to stop this further turning into a DEA rant thread, taken from the same article:
UK ISPs Talk Talk and BT have already asked for and succeeded in convincing the country’s High Court to take a look at whether the DEA was passed into law without going through correct parliamentary procedures, and whether some of proposed measures to fight illegal file-sharing could “harm the basic rights and freedoms of citizens.”
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The DEA is already being appealed, so stop panicking, we are not living in a dystopian world.
 
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My care cup is empty, most of the measures taken are going to be half asses like dns blocking.
I am sure that we are going to have no trouble here finding a way to download Linux distros.
 
Surely the ISPs will refuse. From a business prespective the ISPs who provided access to these sites will gain the customers from the ISPs who block them. So why put themselves at a disadvantage?
 
Here's an idea Hollywood: try lowering your prices and letting people download your stuff direct from you. Stack en deep sell em cheap.

20,000,000 x $2 download
vs
500,000 x $20 DVD
 
kwerk said:
Here's an idea Hollywood: try lowering your prices and letting people download your stuff direct from you. Stack en deep sell em cheap.

20,000,000 x $2 download
vs
500,000 x $20 DVD
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It was pointed out a long time ago that the big gap is not between £1 and £10, it's between £0 and £1 - most people already downloading illegal stuff will continue to do stuff as long as legally it costs anything at all. Very few people download illegally because the prices of legal stuff are too high, no matter what they might protest in public.


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Meridian said:
It was pointed out a long time ago that the big gap is not between £1 and £10, it's between £0 and £1 - most people already downloading illegal stuff will continue to do stuff as long as legally it costs anything at all. Very few people download illegally because the prices of legal stuff are too high, no matter what they might protest in public.


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Aye, and it's also a fallacy to think that costs scale quite that easily - just because a million people download something when the price is £20, doesn't mean that any significant additional number will buy it at £2...

That's before you consider that actually producing the content costs money, the actual cost of putting it onto physical medium is a relatively small part of that total cost (especially when dealing with production runs of many thousands), and something like a Film will have a higher overhead to supply via download than say an MP3 (and at some point the cost of providing a lot of downloads will surpass the cost the cost of supplying physical medium for the same total income).
 
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