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[kingandy]

BIG BUSINESS: "Dammit why can't we stop people sharing files?"
THE GOVERNMENT: "I don't know maybe we could force ISPs to ban them."
THE TIMES: "OMG INTERNETS WILL BAN USERS WHO FILE SHARE BAD WRONGMNESS"
THE ISPs: "Uh, how exactly do you expect us to do that?"

NEWS AT ELEVEN

Comments

[paulgregory.livejournal.com]

Plus in many cases downloading three illegal things would be a useful way of deliberately terminating a contract.

[nattydreadi.livejournal.com]

Out govt is getting to be a bit like the US govt ... the hatred of something existing that they can't exercise control over.

There will always be a country willing to host sites that piss of the US and UK govts.

[mj-uk.livejournal.com]

i still prefered the news about the alarm only under 25 year olds can hear....

thats so cool!

[arwel.livejournal.com]

THE USERS: "lolz!11! encryption"

[spodula.livejournal.com]

There is a tendancy for people to think there are solutions within their own area of expertese.

Journalists: If we write about it lots, people will get the message

Companies: You cant do that, its in the contract!

Marketeers: Lets put it in the terms and conditions! No a 2 point font is far too large, it will distract from the "UNLIMITED INTERNET!!!!!!" part in 80pt Moron bold-italic

Network Techies: I know, lets throttle it and make it very annoying, that will stop them.

First line support: Ug say stop!

Lawyers: I know, lets sue them so hard they squeal, that should get the message across.

Politicians: Lets make a law!, this nice chap from the BSA baught me dinner, when's the last time those internet nerds ever did THAT!

Besides, it hasnt escaped my notice that any software which is capable of monitoring some random traffic from a person, is probably capable of monitoring all random traffic from a person. I assume that the potential cost savings when the local police ask for someones internet to be monitored, probably havent escaped theirs either.

[paulgregory.livejournal.com]

it hasnt escaped my notice that any software which is capable of monitoring some random traffic from a person, is probably capable of monitoring all random traffic from a person. I assume that the potential cost savings when the local police ask for someones internet to be monitored, probably havent escaped theirs either.

Unfortunately parts of the government have already spotted something similar. I think the anti-terror people put forward the brilliant idea "You know that system that stops people swapping child porn, we could just change it and stop people swapping bomb-making stuff". It could possibly have been the anti-paedo people making the leap the other way around.

This may now just be in a giant loop, and the stop-pirate-sharing system idea is based on the stop-child-porn-sharing which is based on the stop-bomb-recipe-sharing which itself merely an assumed possible variant of the stop-pirate-sharing system.

Or perhaps someone's decided that big record and film companies are the only people who can possibly bankroll a Chinese-style force of people to classify every byte as Good or Evil.

[spodula.livejournal.com]

Yes, but there soo very nice about it!

:-)