MI5 comes out against cutting off Internet pirates(timesonline.co.uk)

15 pointsby baxtervor 17 Jahren7 comments

timesonline.co.uk

MI5 comes out against cutting off Internet pirates

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6885923.ece

7 comments

This 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)

parenthesisvor 17 Jahren

Also:

- Does the whole household get cut off when one member illegally fileshares?

rick888vor 17 Jahren

"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.

boblol123vor 17 Jahren

What if they move house? what if its a big house? or several flats? an internet cafe? a business? a university?

gloobvor 17 Jahren

I 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.

JoeAltmaiervor 17 Jahren

Encryption 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.

RiderOfGiraffesvor 17 Jahren