All 2 entries tagged Piracy

Policing internet 'not ISP's job'

Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7329801.stm

The guy who runs TalkTalk's broadband has announced that he's not going to bow to pressure from the music industry to stop people sharing music, stating that it is not his job to be an internet policeman.

I find it hard to sympathize with the music industry. I do not mean I support sharing music illegally, I just mean that it's hard to sympathize with a multi-billion dollar industry trying to get more money.

Of course it's not really in the best interests of the ISPs to disconnect users for illegal file sharing; the ISPs aren't losing money from royalties, but they are gaining money from broadband subscriptions.

Maybe I'm just being cynical...

: 04 Apr 2008 13:24 |  Tags: Music Piracy Randomness Stupid |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Illegal downloaders 'face UK ban'

Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7240234.stm

Surely the most cost and time efficient way to stop illegal downloading is to target the services, not the individual people.

After all, which is going to take less effort: tracking down one person that's running a service and thus automatically stopping hundreds of people using it, or tracking down the hundreds of users?

: 12 Feb 2008 09:48 |  Tags: Downloading Illegal News Piracy Randomness |  Comments (4) |  Close comments |  Report a problem