[Stoat]

Also from the BBC:

BBC NEWS Business Illegal downloaders 'face UK ban'

 

If the law were enacted it would turn ISPs, like BT, Tiscali and Virgin, into a pro-active net police force
 

Darren Waters, technology editor BBC News website

 

 

Internet providers are no more able to inspect and filter every single packet passing across their network than the Post Office is able to open every envelope,
 

Internet Service Providers Association

[agere_contra]

Other high-profile elements include a pledge that children will be entitled to five hours of culture a week overseen by a new youth culture trust.

I know the article is about ISPs and file download, but this kind of jumped out at me as the largest and most cretinous boondoggle that I have ever had to pay for.

[ShadowAce]

[Stevieboy]

Coming soon: Everyone will be required to apply for a license to use the Internet because it’s a privilege, not a right, and governments everywhere could really use the cash to teach us all how to distinguish between good content and bad.

[PeterFinn]

Just another excuse to expand the British police state.

[crazycat]

and just what are the Chinese going to do....Not so long ago the Chines “stole” an entire CD/DVD factory, from I think Philips.....they let them build it, then just shipped all the equipment out....

Gordon Brown is well known as a control freak, so he will love doing this.

[BossLady]

Shades of “V for Vendetta”! :o

[TheMightyQuinn]

People who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the internet

What a wonderful idea! It should be expanded:

Get caught stealing food: banned from grocery stores and restaurants! /sarcasm

[JerseyHighlander]

Been official UK policy to deny internet access to the masses from the start. The government refused to force the telephone companies in the nation to offer local area calling when dial-up internet was the best available for residential internet, they have imposed as many restrictions possible to deny the free flow of info to the subjects of that prison island.

[Still Thinking]

Internet providers are no more able to inspect and filter every single packet passing across their network than the Post Office is able to open every envelope.

Never mind the minor fact that the post office has no business opening every envelope.

[aruanan]

I’d like libraries to be banned from the internet for permitting users under 18 years of age to have unrestricted access to adult sites.

[DTA]

Good thing is that the kind people of Britain will have sharia law to defend them.

they can have their hands chopped off if download is considered a theft, or being stoned if it is considered adultery or insult to the Prophet (PBUH).

God Save the Queen, fascist regime.

[max americana]

The beauty of BT is that the file is in PIECES. And can someone explain HOW the ISP can know if that file is legit or not? (sigh)

Just turn on your encryption AND safepeer/peerguardian 1 or 2, change your ports and DL to your hearts content.

sigh/....we’ve been through this a million times.