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- ogallivanslist, on 01/16/2009, -1/+85***** you im moving
- Dronez, on 01/17/2009, -1/+60The UK is becoming a bureaucratic, government nightmare.
- anyone4apint, on 01/17/2009, -1/+60The sooner I can get off this rock the better. The entire country is turning into an Orwellian nightmare . Such a shame.
Can the last Brit out please turn the lights off. - EmeraldHills, on 01/16/2009, -0/+52Well that ***** sucks
- kero552, on 01/16/2009, -2/+52Not suprised. This is UK we are talking about, future totalitarian state. Gordon may be moron, but one "evil" PM will be enough, everything will be laid for him.
- LtGenPanda, on 01/16/2009, -0/+32Such a move would empower ISPs way too much and a good reason for them to throttle, overcharge and what not ...
- b8man99, on 01/17/2009, -1/+33* Government
- s0m31john, on 01/17/2009, -2/+34How long until the UK changes it's name to Oceania?
- foltaggio, on 01/17/2009, -2/+29***** THE RIAA
- TritonX, on 01/17/2009, -1/+26can someone make a website called *****.com with the sole purpose of wasting bandwidth all the time?
- grungegbunny, on 01/17/2009, -10/+33***** the UK
- benod, on 01/17/2009, -2/+22*****...
...*Back to torrents* - alpha88, on 01/17/2009, -1/+21Sucks for the UK..
- kimbja98, on 01/17/2009, -1/+18The first rule of Usenet is...
- julianmaestas, on 01/17/2009, -2/+17jesus, the UK is becoming more and more of an orwellian police state...
- SilverBlade2k, on 01/17/2009, -2/+17Try Usenet with SSL, they won't be able to know what you've downloaded.
- aufte, on 01/17/2009, -0/+14Next up will be the Loyalist Act. ;)
- akchrs, on 01/17/2009, -0/+13The usenet provider will know.
- TritonX, on 01/17/2009, -0/+12Don't talk about it, they could make encryption illegal unless you are a mega corp approved by the state.
- RBobby, on 01/17/2009, -0/+11Wonder how long it'll take before this legislation comes to America...
- failtrain, on 01/17/2009, -1/+12Hey that isn't fair! This place is great! They told me I could have free cameras in my house to keep me safe.
- SpykerSpeed, on 01/17/2009, -1/+11Wait, why are you concerned about empowering ISPs when it's obviously the GOVERNMENT that's too powerful here? Look who has the gun.
- failtrain, on 01/17/2009, -0/+10No, all the immigrants still need to see.
- jammyfred, on 01/17/2009, -0/+9This sucks, I need to find better way to pirate or I need to get every album. program I could ever want before these ,easures come into force.
- lagmar, on 01/17/2009, -1/+10This sort of thing amounts to guilty until proven innocent. "New 'regulations' (regulations from who?) require ISPs to warn customers suspected of sharing copyrighted material, that they are acting illegally."
So they're suspected of acting illegally, therefore they are acting illegally?
It's a load of *****. Nobody should even be able to see what I'm doing on the internet, let alone police me. - TritonX, on 01/17/2009, -2/+11Isn't that the goal of EVERY government?
- atarijedi, on 01/17/2009, -1/+9STRENGTH THROUGH UNITY, UNITY THROUGH FAITH
- Truth3, on 01/17/2009, -1/+9Encryption = Protection
- Dronez, on 01/17/2009, -3/+10Why doesn't the UK government force ISPs to enforce the law on things that need to be regulated, like child porn?
- championchap, on 01/17/2009, -0/+7We can swap places with the Polish!
- akchrs, on 01/17/2009, -1/+8And you can sit their and explain for days what usenet is and they still don't get it.
- Khast, on 01/17/2009, -0/+7if successful in the UK...probably not long, remember Biden....
- Jerky1312, on 01/17/2009, -1/+7Nobody follows rules on the internet.
- depro9, on 01/17/2009, -2/+86 millions way to fly under the radar, good luck enforcing this fascists.
- u8myfoood, on 01/17/2009, -0/+6I find it horrible that every government official anywhere is just a corporate puppet, we choose them because they speak the words we want to hear when the issue is important in the eyes of the people electing them. Then after the election, they just go back to being like every other politician, pushing for laws that have nothing to do with what they spoke of, meanwhile big corporations are getting exactly what they want.
***** THE TYPICAL POLITICIAN. Democracy is supposed to do what the MASS public wants, not doing what the wealthier individuals of the world want! - ogallivanslist, on 01/17/2009, -0/+5Sweden maybe?
- Steeple, on 01/17/2009, -0/+5hey surely this is better, user side encryption means the isp has deniability, the isp's aren't going to join every torrent download to see what you're doing.
it makes no difference to them if you're maxing out on streaming vid or p2p, it's not like the days when targetting p2p would bring down usage for the isp's - JCPahl, on 01/17/2009, -0/+5England prevails!
- djbon2112, on 01/17/2009, -0/+5The US isn't in much better shape. Britain is just more blatant with it.
- Enigma776, on 01/17/2009, -1/+5One word "Drafted" It will never be law as ISPs do not have the time. The way they see it is Broadband is printing them money.
- vipertech, on 01/17/2009, -0/+4HAHAHAHHAA, this is just like that Australia filter. Who the ***** is going to pay for this?
- jordn, on 01/17/2009, -0/+4I was thinking the same thing, grab my degree from university and GTFO! Don't get me wrong, it's a nice place (in the summer), the people are nice (up north), and the girls are hot. But then again, the economy is going down the pan, which is going to make it difficult for me to get a job when i graduate, and the govenment is turning the country into a police state, and people just let them get away with it, and continue to parrot the line "well, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to be afraid of..."
end to end encryption on my server, and blowfish + AES encryption on my hard drives, i think! i don't download that much copyrighted stuff, but if they want to evesdrop on my tubes, i'll make them work bloody hard for it! :P - Zarokima, on 01/17/2009, -1/+5Democracy is just another word for mob rule.
- PeppermintPig, on 01/17/2009, -1/+4No. 6: “Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages.”
- Zetex, on 01/17/2009, -1/+4George Orwell - 2009
- PeppermintPig, on 01/17/2009, -1/+4How the hell is the ISP going to know if I'm pillaging on the high seas???
- ohplease, on 01/18/2009, -0/+3
The ISPs were the ones getting rich off piracy as well. Very few people need a 25 megabit connection for facebook. - Skooma714, on 01/17/2009, -1/+4I wonder how much ISPs will be given to do this?
Probably the British equivalent of "dick". Why should the ISPs have to do the government's and recording industry's dirty work and spy on their own customers and probably for absolutely nothing? - ohreilly, on 01/17/2009, -0/+3You know, I find it so funny that pretty much every "omg orwell POLICE STATE" comment is written by someone who isn't in the UK. Usually in the US.
Try living here first. It is nowhere near as bad as you seem to want to make out.
And to bring my comment on topic (that's a rarity for Digg...), these are draft plans, are they not? So the House of Commons will have to vote on them (and can be defeated quite easily). If it gets through there, the Lords get to vote (and except for twattish Lord Carter, the ex-telecom regulator, they all generally have common sense) and there it may just be voted down. - roodammy44, on 01/17/2009, -0/+3Whoa, someone has sand in their vagina...
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