Digital Economy Bill Protest Demo - March 24th

[Mr Hammers]

The bill has now gone through the House of Lords and will probably go through the Commons before the election;

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8569750.stm

but, there is a demo protesting against it on the 24th of this month in London, at 5:30 in Old Palace Yard;

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/disconnection

Anyone going? And any Lahndahners know if there's anywhere close to safely park the bike?
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[Itchy]

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[Flip]

What is the new bill? Download films and they cut your internet off?

[chris-red]

If you have a wireless router how can they prove who downloaded the files?
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[GhostRider]

Meh, if you download using usenet/newsgroups then you use a server which is encrypted, no fucker knows what you are downloading. Even if they shut down the indexing sites (i.e like newzbin are currently having trouble) you can still browse usenet raw and look for things yourself using say, newsbin.

Seems like only torrent users will suffer, big whoop.

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[Itchy]

[Kickstart]

[Mr Hammers]

[chris-red]

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As above, most forms of encryption that most people use (quite possibly yourself based on your comment ) are fairly easily crackable.

[Ste]

[Flip]

[Omega]

Everyone will end up banned. I know when it happens to me I'll just move onto my neighbours internet and get them banned etc until everyone in a mile radius is living in the stone age.

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[Kickstart]

Hi

Should in interesting when someone hacks into a ministers home wireless network and then starts doing downloads in bulk. There are certainly going to be people planning that already.

All the best

Keith
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[Jayy]

Yes, very interesting and it's why I've been using this:-

https://www.ipredator.se/

For the past 6 months. Private, secured and anonymous VPN.

[smegballs]

Anyone here had experience with the Tor anonymiser?

I tried to get it working but couldn't configure it properly.

[Phoenix]

It is a bit of a pointless power but nonetheless more power they should'nt have. I wouldn't get worried about it though, you get 3 strikes then you're out, the system is not changing, it relies on a media company to request your ISP to send you a warning, this has been happening for years, the only new part will be the government having the power to shut down your net access.

If you do end up getting a letter warning you from your ISP then you know that your downloading isn't secure, so take steps, such as VPN security and carry on, no more hassle.

[Mr Hammers]

[pa_broon74]

I don't download much stuff, if I like a song, I prefer to buy it to be honest. Downloading films? Who can be arsed.

The problem with this, is it seems to be another one of those new labour laws where guilt is inferred and you have to prove your innocent. Also, theres another issue I'd take with in that; a lot of these new laws criminalise second and third parties unfairly. For example, that landlord mentioned above. It puts unfair liability on him/her if they'd be prosecuted because someone D/L or shared something on a shared wifi network.

That extends to private wifi routers too. This idea that they authorities can't prove who did it, but someone is going to take responsibility for allowing it to happen even although its not particularly reasonable to expect they could do anything about it.

Also as said, Mandelson is an extremely odious individual, any law he champions should be opposed by default.


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