Digital Economy Bill passed through Lords.

[Recursion]

No it does not as the 2B I listed is the information that ISPs are required to collect about all their customers and provide on demand to copyright holders - they can do this without any evidence that any of the ISPs customers have been downloading their content illegally and does not identify customers.

The section you listed refers to complaints made by copyright holders with evidence + IP address to show that a ISP's customer has been illegally downloading their copyrighted material.

Ah well, im no legal expert

[Agnostic Bear]

As long as they don't throttle usenet traffic I don't care about this bill!

Shouldn't the EU swat it down at some point anyway?

[N!ck]

As long as they don't throttle usenet traffic I don't care about this bill!

Shouldn't the EU swat it down at some point anyway?

Why would they do that? All them Linux ISOs you download via usenet eh?

[jrh2002]

Most of ISP's have said they will not cut anybody off unless there is a court order for each and every person they must cut off. Plenty of ways around it as well. I struggle to get my head around why our government is spending so much money on this when in reality it should be the Film / Music / Software companies paying from their huge profits and mounting civil cases against private users. This if it was effective would just stop us casual downloaders who download for ourselves bothering to risk it and then buying cheaply from the market / pub / work mate / school mate / college mate / and even under the counter at small dodgy shops - The old black market that declined due to us downloading ourselves would re-emerge and be the big winners in this and who knows what else they will use that cash for.

[Markeh]

I believe with this ruling they're mainly going after the ones that resell on, or big downloaders off of uTorrent, Limewire and TPB and such, not the ones that download 1 track every so often, right?

[Recursion]

I believe with this ruling they're mainly going after the ones that resell on, or big downloaders off of uTorrent, Limewire and TPB and such, not the ones that download 1 track every so often, right?

Ah but this is just the start...

[Oleh]

What ever happened to privacy?

[Agnostic Bear]

Why would they do that? All them Linux ISOs you download via usenet eh?

Of course, gotta make sure I get my latest build of Fedora.

[Recursion]

Of course, gotta make sure I get my latest build of Fedora.

Or those recently brewed Ubuntus eh

[LOLROB]

That went out the window a while ago