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The New Vulcan Glee Bar ([info]ms_treesap) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2008-02-13 14:40:00
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Illegal downloaders 'face UK ban'
Ganked from insomnia's journal;

People in the UK who go online and illegally download music and films may have their internet access cut under plans the government is considering.

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[info]octavia
2008-02-13 04:54 pm UTC (link)
Soooo... having to determine which of those many many many little packets contains a tiny part of anything 'illegal'? Good luck with that.

And thinking further, even trying to quite possibly is illegal.

Now I feel sorry for the ISP's who get this bullshit landed on them again and again.

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[info]sheep
2008-02-13 06:23 pm UTC (link)

D:

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[info]deliciouschaos
2008-02-13 06:28 pm UTC (link)
Oh, this is going to work out spectacularly.

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[info]metropolis22786
2008-02-13 06:43 pm UTC (link)
They'd have more luck trying to slam a revolving door.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2008-02-13 10:56 pm UTC (link)
This comment made me laugh so hard.

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[info]southerngaelic
2008-02-13 06:49 pm UTC (link)
........This won't end well.

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[info]esclaramonde
2008-02-13 06:54 pm UTC (link)
"This is the number one issue for the creative industries in the digital age, and the government's willingness to tackle it should be applauded," said BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor.

"Now is not the time for ISPs to hide behind bogus privacy arguments, or claim the problem is too complicated or difficult to tackle."

This man: believes the internet is a series of tubes, y/n?

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[info]kijikun
2008-02-13 07:57 pm UTC (link)
At least he knows the internet isn't a truck.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2008-02-14 03:41 am UTC (link)
Sounds to me like he thinks it's something that can be wrestled to the ground.

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[info]tangentialone
2008-02-14 04:53 am UTC (link)
...I think trying to wrestle the internet to the ground would probably result in being violated by its many naughty tentacles.

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[info]komorebi
2008-02-14 05:22 am UTC (link)
I'm envisioning a re-staging of Jacob Wrestles The Angel, but for some reason the Series Of Tubes keeps looking like the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Does it still work?

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[info]tangentialone
2008-02-14 05:26 am UTC (link)
...Wow, the Rembrandt one looks especially... like what I was thinking of. XD

Oh, the FGM is a GREAT representation of the internet! :D

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[info]khym_chanur
2008-02-14 08:10 am UTC (link)
Actually, calling the internet a series of tubes isn't that bad an analogy, and certainly better than calling it "the Information Superhighway". I can't speak to the point made with tubes analogy, since I don't remember what it was.

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[info]loki
2008-02-14 08:35 am UTC (link)
"The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's, it's a series of tubes." -- Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)

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[info]esclaramonde
2008-02-14 09:45 am UTC (link)
I think the point was something to do with "when some people download music, movies, &c., they're clogging the tubes for the rest of us."

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[info]freezer
2008-02-14 01:43 pm UTC (link)
Ah, the Comcast Defense.

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[info]wrackspurt
2008-02-13 07:02 pm UTC (link)
I'd start talking about Data Protection and whatnot, but it's just not worth it *sigh*

As fast as they come up with something to determine illegality, there will be someone coming up with something to get around it.

ILU hackers. For now.

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[info]mary_mac
2008-02-14 01:37 am UTC (link)
Yeah. I wonder does the muppet who wrote this realise we have a Data Protection Act that specifically forbids the ISPs from even thinking about doing what they're proposing...

*clings to fabulous Victorian civil servants who knew about legal interconnection*

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[info]sparkysrevenge
2008-02-14 09:04 am UTC (link)
I read that as "legal intercourse."

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[info]mary_mac
2008-02-14 11:25 am UTC (link)
*Victorian glare*

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[info]ashenmote
2008-02-13 07:15 pm UTC (link)
What is this 'bogus privacy' the BPI chief executive keeps talking about?

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[info]kijikun
2008-02-13 08:10 pm UTC (link)
The kind that keeps him from rolling in piles of money?

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[info]sgtgeorgecarter
2008-02-13 08:16 pm UTC (link)
Again these people clearly illustrate they know absolutely nothing about how anything on the net works.

And I love the fella who says "funny how when the corps lose money the govt. leaps right up". Sadly correct.

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[info]metropolis22786
2008-02-14 02:14 am UTC (link)
Might I perhaps be able to obtain that icon? Full credit etc. will be given. :D?

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[info]sgtgeorgecarter
2008-02-14 02:25 am UTC (link)
Please feel free, I nicked it from someone on LJ years ago who didn't remember where they got it, so sadly we can not give the creator their proper due.

Unless someone knows who did make it, in which case I'd be please to credit them.

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[info]metropolis22786
2008-02-14 02:28 am UTC (link)
Aewsome. Thanks muchly.

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[info]beccastareyes
2008-02-13 09:06 pm UTC (link)
My non-existent kingdom for government officials who understand something about the Internet and computers.

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[info]shallow_kid
2008-02-14 05:52 pm UTC (link)
Generally speaking, everyone in government is old and old people seem to have some sort of mental block when it comes to technology. My parents have had the internet for many moons and yet I still have to help my mom log in to her email. Dad won't even touch it.

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[info]ms_treesap
2008-02-16 01:55 am UTC (link)
My Dad's alright, but he works with electronic bits and bobs anyway.

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[info]demonbean
2008-02-13 10:34 pm UTC (link)
I agree with the rest - how, exactly, do they intend to distinguish legal from illegal downloads? Banning limewire and like is too simple - limewire pro is used for professional file transfer. Banning bittorrent software is also too simple - WoW at LEAST uses this method for its patch downloads.

It could work. I just don't have high hopes. At the very least, it should cause MASSIVE lag.

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[info]freezer
2008-02-14 07:02 am UTC (link)
Banning bittorrent software is also too simple - WoW at LEAST uses this method for its patch downloads.

Not to mention every major Linux distro uses torrents.

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[info]khym_chanur
2008-02-14 08:11 am UTC (link)
It wouldn't surprise me if they said "Those Open Source people are all a bunch of commies anyways!"

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[info]khym_chanur
2008-02-14 08:08 am UTC (link)
Banning limewire and like is too simple

Not to simple for the morons who back this nonsense. They'd figure that the collateral damage to legitimate file sharing users would be worth the price, especially since they wouldn't be the ones paying the price. They'd probably also point out that software was distributed over the Internet before BitTorrent existed, so software distribution can continue even if BitTorrent is banned.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2008-02-15 06:03 am UTC (link)
Clearly we should just get rid of this newfangled Interthing entirely and go back to letter post and the telephone, as GOD INTENDED.

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[info]ms_treesap
2008-02-15 10:30 am UTC (link)
AAAMEN.

*Adjusts bonnet*

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[info]freezer
2008-02-14 07:01 am UTC (link)
Yet another law passed by people with no idea on how the thing to be governed actually works...

I'd like to see the shitstorm that brews up when they try the next "logical" step: banning anonymity tools.

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[info]snowden
2008-02-14 07:10 am UTC (link)
HA. IT SUCKS TO BE YOU GUYS.

(And before you ask, no, I don't know what hubris means. Dictionaries are un-American.)

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[info]hitchhiker42
2008-02-16 12:25 am UTC (link)
You laugh now, you vile, filthy, file-stealing webbernets user, but we'll get you, AND YOUR LITTLE DOG, TOO!

Sincerly,
Ma Bell

(Why this is Very Bad News: Most US traffic passes through the AT&T at one point or another, even if they aren't your ISP.)

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[info]snowden
2008-02-16 12:49 am UTC (link)
But, my porn! D:

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periods
(Anonymous)
2008-02-23 07:07 am UTC (link)
I know this forum isn’t supposed to be used like a blog but I need some help. I’m fourteen years old and I had a problem in one of my classes. We had to write a paper on how grammar has changed since old english…

Well the paper was do on the friday before September and he said we’d get them back on Tuesday. so I went to class on tuesday and he said the papers were wrote really good. So he handed them out and I was pretty nervous because he reads the grades out loud in front of the whole class.

so he is handing them out and everyone is getting good grades and then he calls my name and says “this is the worst paper you have written for me” and then he said a whole bunch of the problems (bad grammar ect.) I made.

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So now I need advice,' I was wearing white after labor day, and everyone saw. What should I do?

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Re: periods
[info]ms_treesap
2008-02-23 07:26 am UTC (link)
a) That was MONTHS ago, and you need advice now?

b) You claim to be fourteen. Wait four years, then come back with something more interesting to say and that actually belongs in a fandom comm. I doubt your pants count as a fandom.

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Re: periods
[info]amxjm
2008-02-23 08:55 am UTC (link)
Didn't you learn anything from Serial Mom? NO WHITE AFTER LABOR DAY.

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