Oh botheration
Feb. 12th, 2008 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlThe latest governmental idiocy: Proposing that ISPs police illegal file sharing.
Big business throws its weight about again.
Anyone with half a brain can see what will happen; the ISPs will put up their prices to cover costs, penalising all internet users, and the file-sharers will just get more clever and find a way around it. Also, Y HALO THAR DATA PROTECTION ACT 1998. It's like asking the Post Office to open every letter to make sure they are all legal.
Ok, I admit I'm not quite on the side of the angels; I do download a couple of American programmes, because the wait for them to go to DVD id too long and we can't afford Sky and the terrestrials don't carry them. But if the channels would put up a streamed episode or something, I wouldn't do it. The Beeb has the right idea with their making the unmissable unmissable thing. (BTW, is there anything to stop one from watching every single programe as soon as they put it up, thus removing the need for a TV licence?)
Big business throws its weight about again.
Anyone with half a brain can see what will happen; the ISPs will put up their prices to cover costs, penalising all internet users, and the file-sharers will just get more clever and find a way around it. Also, Y HALO THAR DATA PROTECTION ACT 1998. It's like asking the Post Office to open every letter to make sure they are all legal.
Ok, I admit I'm not quite on the side of the angels; I do download a couple of American programmes, because the wait for them to go to DVD id too long and we can't afford Sky and the terrestrials don't carry them. But if the channels would put up a streamed episode or something, I wouldn't do it. The Beeb has the right idea with their making the unmissable unmissable thing. (BTW, is there anything to stop one from watching every single programe as soon as they put it up, thus removing the need for a TV licence?)
