torrentfreak.com — Customers of Be Broadband haven?t been able to get access to their favorite torrent sites for several hours, causing a widespread panic among BitTorrent addicts. With the government pushing for tougher anti-piracy legislation many feared the worst. They are safe for now though.
Jun 18, 2009 View in Crawl 4
digitalpencilJun 18, 2009
I run Be and haven't had any issue (that said i've only been home for two hours and as the article states, only certain IP ranges had been affected). Regardless though, this new legislation is getting out of hand.. If they start forcing my ISP to cripple my line, i'm going to end up signing up for VPN.Included in the Digital Britain Proposed Obligations:• Blocking (Site, IP, URL) • Protocol blocking • Port blocking • Bandwidth capping (capping the speed of a subscriber’s internet connection and/or capping the volume of data traffic which a subscriber can access) • Bandwidth shaping (limiting the speed of a subscriber’s access to selected protocols/services and/or capping the volume of data to selected protocols/services) • Content identification and filteringFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
torrentfreakJun 18, 2009
Scary indeed, but these obligations you mention will only be used if the warning letters fail to deter (which they will).We gave it a mention here: <a class="user" href="http://torrentfreak.com/europe-amps-up-war-on-piracy-090618/">http://torrentfreak.com/europe-amps-up-war-on-pira ...</a>For those who are interested the full report is available here: <a class="user" href="http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/6216.aspx">http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/ ...</a>
vsujohn2Jun 18, 2009
Unintentional? Lol...right.
colonchancerJun 19, 2009
Chillax, all back up again. Be is the dog's knees tho. The only TRULY unlimited UK ISP. To my knowledge and to best DSL upstream, 200+kbps for me all the time.
Closed AccountJun 19, 2009
Yo, Brit Diggers, write to your MP. I know I will.
fhwqhgadsJun 19, 2009
Yeah right. Can you write him a bigger check than the **AA? I thought not. But if it makes you feel better by all means...