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    Post Report: Unauthorized UK Downloaders to be Cut Off

    A recent report has many buzzing over the possibility that British ISP's might start become the copyright police.

    The report contains the following:

    A draft consultation suggests internet service providers would be required to take action over users who access pirated material via their accounts.

    But the government is stressing that plans are at an early stage and it is still working on final proposals.



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    Didn't France have something similar proposed?
    The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; the Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; the Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NDGAARONDI View Post
    Didn't France have something similar proposed?
    Proposed and passed some sort of 3 strike you're in shit rule
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    that aint to good, guess i should move, which country tho?

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    Where does it end? Let's make ISP's responsible for catching people who do phishing scams, credit card fraud, online bank robbery, industrial espionage, child pornography, harassment, cyber terrorism, distribution of viruses, spam ect... Comcast... the new police.
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    where's the neutrality? isn't the internet supposed to be neutral? I guess not in the eyes of greedy polititions who don't see that File-Sharing is the way of the future.

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