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MI5 comes out against cutting off Internet pirates
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoRelated: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=907571 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=907571
- bendtheblock 17y agoThis just shows how out of touch the UK govt is. I wonder which Labour sponser lobbied for this. The government assume this is a hardcore minority. I'm not an illegal filesharer, but I sure know a lot people that do. I don't think it's a small minority. Questions... - How do you define 'illegal fileshare'? Based on the network used? The content of the file? - How would this be implemented? Would the ISP do the blocking? - What's to stop the 'criminal' from using a wifi connection elsewhere? - What effect does this have on the neutrality of the net in the UK? (Sorry, posted this comment on another thread before seeing this)
- parenthesis 17y agoAlso: - Does the whole household get cut off when one member illegally fileshares?
- rick888 17y ago"Does the whole household get cut off when one member illegally fileshares?" I would imagine the entire connection gets cut-off, because it would be very difficult to allow the household to keep the connection and prevent one person from going online.
- boblol123 17y agoWhat if they move house? what if its a big house? or several flats? an internet cafe? a business? a university?
- gloob 17y agoI can see three plausible options: i) The government throws its hands in the air and gives up. ii) The government cuts off the entire building/complex. iii) The government cuts off people entirely at random. Knowing the way most governments tend to work, my money is on number 3, with number 2 coming in a distant second.
- JoeAltmaier 17y agoEncryption will make this moot very soon. In fact routine encryption will confound many attempts to post-fit content control into the existing internet. For instance, deep-sniffing routers that prefer ATT traffic over Vonage, or prefer one ISP's subscribers' traffic over another because of the rate they pay.