Be Excellent To Each Other

It could be worse, they could be going to prison for theft.

And the unlikely ally of Piracy? GCHQ - because cracking down on piracy means an increase in use of products that encrypt, which means that spying is harder.

You couldn't make it up.

Also, C&binet? WTF?

I stand by what I said on Twitter

PIRACY IS THEFT. YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR, WOULD YOU?



I did wonder about that.

Bloody Kalmar and his hippy-car friends.

Chill, Winston

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8328820.stm

So darknets will be legal then?

Or putting a link to a MP3 download on my Facebook page?

This has already been mentioned in B&B, and I'm not paying £50 copying my post over. Thread merge?

Edit: Though, um, it is literally my response to zaphod, which seems a waste of moderatorial effort.

Check this:

Lord M: We've identified you downloading The Bangle's Greatest Hits through your ISP. Although I acknowledge your obviously classy taste in music, it is still a bad thing hence you must be punished.

DO YOU ANSWER:

1) Yes, you got me - Admit it and take it like Mr French

2) Deny it and say you've got a secure wireless connection, it's only me that can get in and out of it. - You've fucked yourself here, as if it wasn't you, and could only have been you, was it fucking Aslan?

3) Open WiFi, matey, could have been anyone. - I'm sure the HDD will be at the bottom of a canal by now, in a binbag with a CO2 cartridge attached to a balloon read for retrieval once the heat is off.

I'd do #3 every time.

Also, open WiFi connections are most citizenlike and should be encouraged.

Not in my neighbourhood! I shudder to imagine what the scrotes round here would schlep through my router.

Hasn't precedent been set for #3? Ie. Tough shit - your network, your problem?

66.54.44.230
94.102.152.106
92.52.89.31

most likely.

Dunno. Not really my area, IT security, and I only gave it about 30 seconds thought.

Like it. Good work fella.

That one... not where I live

My O2 router shipped with an unsecure default admin password that could be dictionary attacked in seconds. Dunno where that would stand as a defence, as anyone breaking into the router wouldn't be doing so with my permission, either implicit (open security) or explicit (give them the password).

"Furthermore, I am definitely not a lying, sleazy cock." He added.

What a load of shit. Are we going to implement tougher penalties for being foreign, and then say that pay-off will be a more relaxed police regime, then? Gah, screw this, lunchtime.

It's probably the most technically complicated joke I've ever done, here.

Mandy is wasting his time with all this shite, he's just proving himself to be utterly out of touch with the public once again. This legislature won't come into force for another 2 years, by which time I'm fairly certain that Spotify (or Google or Facebook) will have managed to build their free/pay streaming services to a point where 95% of the public who pirated before won't bother anymore as they are only interested in listening to popular songs available via these services. The musos who pirate obscure and underground music (including myself) will not have to worry about this legislature as this music won't be BPI affiliated so they have no control over any copyright infringements. Personally, I've already stopped pirating BPI affiliated music in favour of just bookmarking it on Spotify. Innovative business models were always going to be the solution for the music industry, not bullshit like this out-of-touch, waste-of-time legislative rubbish.

See, also, foxhunting ban, the theft act, dangerous dogs act.

Spotify isn't going to work as a business model though Pupil. It doesn't make any money and can only exist because the labels cut it a subsidised pricing deal because they are shit-scared of iTunes.

I don't really see why not, the fact that it exists shows in some way it is succeeding. The consumer will slowly be moving away form physical format purchasing towards streaming services, whether that is film, tv or music. Now in Spotify you can cache an album onto your PC/iPhone/DAP (if you pay the 10 quid a month subscription) so you can listen to it "off-line", so why "purchase" the album via HMV or iTunes or wherever else? The industry will have to move away from making mass profits on music sales towards a more diverse business model. I agree Spotify (in its current incarnation) isn't the answer, but it is a step in the direction of the solution.

Easy answer here. If you're thinking about sharing files, try not sharing files.

Whatever, dice.

The trick is, download, but don't seed. Bit of a dice move though

The only solution I see is the Beex Darknet Splinter Internet.

Need a catchier name. BXSplinternet?

FlounceNet?

nothingshadygoingonherenet.

Well, six degress of seperation, then. I'm downloading from my friend's mother's cousin's sister's brother.

Oh that's you is it? Get orf moi baaandwidth.

Nothing will stand between me and your surprisingly large collection of Tiny Tim mp3s! NOTHING!

Oh, you've turned off your computer. *shakes fist*

Beeb story about "File sharers" spend more money than average actually buying music n stuff :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8337887.stm

Good lord. The findings don't actually signal that in any way, shape, or form, do they you mealy-mouthed little shit?

The register have a nice take on this as well where they basically say that the way the music industry has ignored legitimate P2P stuff in the past has cost them

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/01 ... ic_survey/

Shiittt! I'm just going to have to travel around with some blank tapes everywhere, just in case a friend has something I'd like a copy of. That's a bit inconvenient.


Oh wait I've got a 160GB* memory stick in my pocket.

* well something like that.

I like this. It's say if you are into music, you'll get your hands on it anyway you can, even by PAYING for it. Saying that the "Record Companies" are pointing the evil P2P finger and law against their most loyal customers... potentially making it worse as people flick them the V and downloading more.

EU offers hope to file-sharers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8344174.stm