Comments on: UK ISPs Blast New “Three-Strikes” Proposal http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86969/uk-isps-blast-new-three-strikes-proposal/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:00:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Top 5 Internet Service Providers http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86969/uk-isps-blast-new-three-strikes-proposal/#comment-202941 Top 5 Internet Service Providers Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:08:33 +0000 http://www.zeropaid.com/?p=86969#comment-202941 [...] UK ISPs Blast New “Three-Strikes” Proposal [...] [...] UK ISPs Blast New “Three-Strikes” Proposal [...]

]]> By: Jordan http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86969/uk-isps-blast-new-three-strikes-proposal/#comment-202888 Jordan Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:18:34 +0000 http://www.zeropaid.com/?p=86969#comment-202888 3-strikes? Is this a bad dream? How can this be technologically undertaken exactly? To use an example from a few years ago, how in the hell can an mp3 by R&B artist Usher be differentiated from a college lecture mp3 by Peter Usher? What about dynamic IP addresses? We already have problems with Wikipedia saying "you can't edit, because the person before you was a vandal". I can see it now: "You can't actually access the Internet, because the person before you downloaded Flo Rida off of Limewire. Sorry." I would be a happy man if I could travel into the future and read the chapters in the history books to find out how this garbage turns out. Please tell me these people are reduced to a footnote, with the real innovators prevailing. What (still) confuses and frightens me the most though is the continual failure to distinguish between for-profit piracy and home ripping and burning. Why are the authorities so lax on organised DVD/music piracy and so hellbent on disconnecting consumers from **the Internet**? "Oh dear, I've been busted, its back to the $1 DVDs at the local market?" Wtf? 3-strikes? Is this a bad dream? How can this be technologically undertaken exactly?

To use an example from a few years ago, how in the hell can an mp3 by R&B artist Usher be differentiated from a college lecture mp3 by Peter Usher?

What about dynamic IP addresses? We already have problems with Wikipedia saying “you can’t edit, because the person before you was a vandal”. I can see it now: “You can’t actually access the Internet, because the person before you downloaded Flo Rida off of Limewire. Sorry.”

I would be a happy man if I could travel into the future and read the chapters in the history books to find out how this garbage turns out. Please tell me these people are reduced to a footnote, with the real innovators prevailing.

What (still) confuses and frightens me the most though is the continual failure to distinguish between for-profit piracy and home ripping and burning. Why are the authorities so lax on organised DVD/music piracy and so hellbent on disconnecting consumers from **the Internet**? “Oh dear, I’ve been busted, its back to the $1 DVDs at the local market?” Wtf?

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