Digital Economy Bill passed through Lords.

~~lazerman~~ · 17-03-2010, 10:48 PM

Digital Economy Bill Protest

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?ei...7221005&ref=nf

Organised by Pirate Party UK!

Im going for sure. Anyone else?

Date: Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Location: Old Palace Yard
Town/City: London, United Kingdom

Black_Apalachi · 19-03-2010, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by 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.

Exactly. I got probably about 90% of my music from a friend and I bet I could find someone with any music I wanted who would be able to send me it/give me it on a disc. This would solve nothing as there are ways around anything. Whatever it costs will be a huge waste of money considering how piracy really isn't as big an issue at the moment as it's made out to be.

When should this come into play if it goes ahead?

Flisker · 19-03-2010, 06:56 PM

I believe the EU will overrule this at some point, surely this is against human rights? If this does go ahead though, it's only the government who are losing out on money (tax on broadband, and such).