UK Musicians Denounce “Three-Strikes” Proposal
Cites US music industry’s failure despite more than 30,000 lawsuits against illegal file-sharers as proof that it won’t succeed.
It was about 3 weeks ago now that UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, head of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and whom ultimately is tasked with implementing the recommendations for dealing with illegal file-sharing as [...]
PPUK – Why the Price of Justice is Too High for File-Sharing
Last week, the UK Pirate Party officially became a political party in Britain, this week, they have posted an interesting commentary on the price of justice if every file-sharer in the UK was caught and brought before the courts.
Already, one UK minister said that a so-called “three strikes” law is too draconian back in June, [...]
UK ISP Now Requires Court Order for Disconnection
Karoo had been disconnecting file-sharers after one accusation by copyright holders.
Late last month I reported how UK ISP Karoo had been been disconnecting BitTorrent users accused of copyright infringement after a single notification by copyright holders without offering customers a chance to dispute the allegations.
The practice was revealed by several of its [...]
Users Wrongly Accused of Internet Piracy Step Forward
Is an IP address sufficient evidence to prosecute an alleged file-sharer? This is a question that has been tackled by many in legal circles around the world. Some countries, including Canada, have court rulings that suggested that it wasn’t sufficient evidence by itself. In spite of this, ACS Law in the UK [...]
Masthead Editorials Critical of Canadian Surveillance Legislation
There’s a pair of editorials found in two major news outlets in Canada that are critical of the new surveillance legislation the Conservative government of Canada tables in parliament. Both seem to agree that the potential for abuse exists with the new “tools” that would be granted to police. We look at a [...]
Anti-Piracy Group Wants “3-Strikes,” Calls Throttling “Waste of Time”
UK Federation Against Software Theft and Investors in Software react to govt’s assertion that Internet connections of accused file-sharers will face “technical measures” rather than disconnection, adding there needs to be a “fear factor.”
Several times now the UK govt has revealed that it will not seek to disconnect those repeatedly accused of file-sharing via a [...]
Music Sale Losses Due to Gaming, DVDs, Not P2P
File-sharing, for years, has been one of the copyright industry’s favourite scape-goat. Lately, British news sources have received a fresh dose of “studies” where the copyright industry through government officials have been saying how file-sharing costs British artists billions thanks to the millions of file-sharers in the UK. While the numbers have since [...]
UK’s Channel 4 to Let Users Stream Video Library for Free
Will be 1st UK broadcaster to do so.
Beginning sometime next month, the UK’s Channel 4 will let viewers stream most of the channel’s entire archived video library for free online.
This means that more than 10,000 titles will be added to its 4oD Catch-Up on-demand streaming service.
The site currently only allows users to stream recent show [...]
UK Spy – Gov’t Logging Your Web Activity Saves Lives
Stop us if you’ve heard this one already – we must forgo our privacy and allow the government to log all of our activity on the internet to prevent a terrorist attack. No, it’s not another pro-wiretapping argument being made in the United States, but it is a pro-data retention argument being heard in [...]
Further Doubt Cast on UK Copyright Industry P2P Statistics
Late last night, we touched on statistics that were posted about file-sharing as the copyright industry sees it. While the copyright industry claims that this is just further evidence that points to a need to disconnect people from the internet in the UK, there has been an increasing number of people that think that [...]
