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Originally Posted by arista
They will get the Illegal providers
but they will take down all those that used it,
as well.
3 strikes and you are shut off
is fair,
you know it is a Criminal action
you get fair warnings.
Life In The City.
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Wrong, it is NOT a criminal offence. If they made it a criminal offence people would have the right of appeal, enough people appeal the law fails. The proposed Digital Economy Bill has only been published as a white paper.
It has yet to be enabled as a law. Amendments are allowed to bedebated if it is introduced as proposed legislation.
If it did become law it would then be up to the individual after receiving his warning letter, bandwidth capping or other internet service restriction to explain to their ISP, then if need be make a complaint to OfCom, explaining their side of the story.
In effect you are guilty and punished without due process of law.
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Originally Posted by Dezzy
It's not the law yet though.
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Very true, one of the suggested amendments to the bill would actually make it unenforceable.
One of the big selling points of cds and dvds was the fact they were supposed to last a lifetime. The music industry still insist this is so. Consequently an amendment was proposed to state if you had a legal copy of an album you could download as back up a copy of the album on the net.
The music industry lobbyists said no, so the amendment was changed so that the music industry guarantee the life of CD's and the movie industry do likewise for DVD's, if your album or dvd fails anytime during use they would then be bound to replace the faulty item regardless of age and amount of use. They arent too keen on that one though, wonder why.