Total internet access ban for illegal downloaders in UK
 

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http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/consume...5&in_page_id=5

Not sure about that.

I'm ready to storm Parlaiment already.

Holy S**T. Does it cover limewire users too?

Time to go live somewhere else kids.

It would appear so. I'm not sure how they're supposed to detect illegal downloading though.

Yup. I'll probably go to the US, Australia or New Zealand. I better go looking for visas.

They'll just ban torrents altogether or arrest anyone the big media people point the finger at, like toddlers and disabled people who dont even own a computer.

Scratch the US and Aus, the US is going nowhere fast and our (that is, the Australian) government is working on a China-esque internet censorship scheme. I would recommend New Zealand or Canada. Those are two places I'm considering moving to myself.

Call it obscure. How would Japan figure in this at all?

To be honest this seems like an all-talk-no-action kind of thing.

Catgirls?

One would hope so.

Do some research and let us know what our best bet is. (Seriously.)

Is limewire still on? I plan to panic download as many songs as I can!

LIMEWIRE!!! You shouldn't be using that in the first place......apart from songs...they're safe. But seeing as you only seem to use it for songs, there was no point in me posting this.
Yeah, this could be bad...maybe we could open up like a stream sort of thing in New Zealand. Could download to a server or something and then leak it back to the UK...of course, it would be well disguised so no one would know ;)...if only.

Just off the top of my head, I'm leaning towards NZ because it's a. not connected to the US and b. I've heard that NZ has one of the most intelligent populations in the world (will look this up later to verify).

On the other hand, I'm interested in working in the games industry, and in Canada the games industry is one of the best (best as in quality) in the world.

I'll do more research and get back to you guys with what I find.

I shall pack my bags then just in case, evolve our community form online to a small village in the hills somewhere.

I hope Limewire is not hit too badly. I use it to get songs as it need to save any money i can.

My Grandma lived in NZ for a while and apparently it's like Britain except 20 years ago.

My Great Uncle Ron moved to New Zealand in the 1970s.

Great that innit?

Ok, so here's the techy stuff that I've heard/read etc. over the past few years etc:

Limewire (and the like) = Very easy to detect and determine who is downloading what, when and, eventually, where.

Torrents: Actually the most secure, because there are so many connections and pieces. It's technically extremely hard to determine who is downloading what file and from where.

ISPs have stated that they cannot monitor the data transferred over their network. Whilst I don't believe this, I would expect the question of time required to monitor a single transfer is rediculous.

Oh, and as a side-note this policy is only at proposal stage. Our government are too retarded to consider the technical implications so they pull policies like this out of their arses.

You shouldn't be using limewire anyway, it like sucks.

Yeah I know. Free songs. How gay is that.

As much as I hate to agree with Ross, he's right. Limewire does suck.

Just torrent albums, yo. Usually much higher quality and usually you can pick and choose which tracks to actually download.

Well 50% of my songs are from Limewire and it was pretty fast and they are of good quality.

Agreed with Ross and RV. Limewire FTL -- FTML even. Torrents FTW.

I have still had no decent argument against songs coming from it other than gay noob net speak.

Epic failure.

With torrents you have less of a chance of getting a corrupted file.

But hey, if it works for you go for it. :P

You also have a chance of being hit by a meteor if you go outside.

The only problem I have ever had with Limewire was when I downloaded Best of you by the Foo Fighters. As it has been made much louder, besides that Limewire has given me no problems,

See, Limewire should never be used, it ****ed up a great Foo Fighters song.

well no, it's whoever edited it. Limewire itself didn't change the song, just the person who made it available on the net.

Ronnie is right, I don't understand why they had to make it louder when you could just download it as normal and just turn the volume up. I have to turn it down >.<

Thats my only qualm with Limewire, in that quality varies, i should just face reality for a change and get an iTunes account.

They'll never be able to pull this off!

Exactly, thats the reality.

China has, why would the UK be any different?

Because the UK isn't communist?

... then again neither is China... they just say they are.

Irrelevant. Jamie's comment was in reference to technical ability, not governmental power. RV pointed out that China was able to do it so the UK will be able to do so as well if they do go forward with this wholeheartedly.

You don't have to be communist to be authoritarian.

Well China were able to limit the amount of hours a person spends online daily if i remember right.

That's not difficult.

Well it goes to show if thats easy, then so should be the ability to stop people form using torrents, however in this day and age there is always a way to slip under the closed door.

If they really wanted to crack down, they could. They're just not for the time being.

It's a shame then that the inards of your computer will no longer be of good quality.