Thank you for your reply and for sending me the links to those articles. I thought it might help if I explained that these contain a couple of factual errors. Firstly, the computing article claims that amendment 120a gets ISPs to police websites and allows for people to be cut off from the internet. Neither of these are true. The clause that is now in the Bill sets up a system whereby a court can block a website if it believes it is facilitating a significant amount of illegal downloading and doing won't impact on legitimate users of the internet or on freedom of expression. This to me is a reasonable approach to take against such sites.
The clauses that deal with illegal file sharing and potential temporary suspension from the internet are clauses 10-17. However, these clauses cannot come into being for at least 12 months and only after Parliament has debated whether they are necessary. Again, this is a reasonable and proportionate approach to a problem that costs the economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
You may not be convinced but hopefully I have explained my thinking on these important issues.
firstly i want to make it clear I am just a consumer/pirate/fan
ok here is the link to the full story:
http://www.renegaderhythms.com/home.html?main=http://www.renegaderhythms.com/articles/ur/sony_correspondence.html#121099
i have no doubt that this will continue in the future and regardless of who they do this to they will always try to force themselves onto any thing they think will make money
BOYCOTT THE BIG BUSINESS
ALL MUSICIANS NEED TO GO INDEPENDENT
NEW TECHNOLOGY WILL NEVER DIE NOR WILL IT BOW DOWN TO CORPORATE PRESSURE
FILE SHARERS ARE NOT THIEVES
wouldn't it be good if some independent record labels began to run their own bitorrent trackers then we would have ethical/legal filesharing or maybe one run within RIAA HQ by some lil geek in a broom cupboard with only a monitor for light!
One thing above all over that seems to get forgotten is that humans SHARE .
Almost everything we do is centered around sharing either experiences or knowledge.
Even when we were cavemen & we discovered the DRUM what did we do?
went back to our colony and SHOWED OFF OUR NEW SKILL!
there by SHARING the experience so that OTHERS CAN DO IT TOO this then progressed to groups of humans gathering in one place and joining in with the drumming patterns they have learn with this new fancy object.
Now in the 21st century when we share music we run the risk of the people in control(the dictators!) saying that if we share new music with our friends and anyone else that it is wrong & illegal and we will be taken to court!
which is the same as one tribal chief going to a neighboring tribe and taking all their food on the premise that they took/stole a drum pattern without permission
if this had occurred back at that time we would probably not have the wide variety of music available today.
RIAA back off and work out a new damn business model based on ethics and sharing which seem to me to be the two most important qualities which you guy's seem to ignore because humans are sharing animal by nature.
BUT WAIT A MINUTE lets go to the other extreme and imagine a world where you have enforcers paroling everywhere looking for illegally shared music!
They strut about as if all music is theirs and make criminal out of those busker's on street corners who sing & play a guitar SO THEY CAN SHARE THEIR PERSONAL FAVORITE SONG, then what's that oh no some has company in his/her living room & they are listening to her/his music THATS SHARING which is illegal
piss off RIAA
why don't you go do something less boring instead!
so what does this guy do when say a bunch of tourist's start taking pictures of our wonderful old building just at the same time this dude walks past in the background & BAM he has been caught walking down oxford street
does he then track down these so called tourist's and take them to court as well?
when are people going to pull their collective heads out of their nose bag's & realize a PUBLIC PLACE IS A PUBLIC PLACE.
STAY IN IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE SEEN.
be it a passer by, cctv, snappy tourist's, beggars, blaggers, cops on push bikes, cops on foot, me, you & the whole world have the ability to see YOU in some form or another either directly or by proxy face it when you are in a public place weather you know it or not there is the possiblity you will get spotted/snapped/tracked/questioned/quized/glanced at/spoken too
Why don't this dude make better use of his time by lobbying against the fact that you now need government permission to protest!
i wonder when facebook will employ SSL for their login system because at the moment all your login details are passed to the server from your browser in CLEAR TEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so in light of that lil nugget & the main topic the social engineer tryin to dupe you may actualy be using a real account! access to which could be gained by some variety of traffic sniffing!
i had this exact same thought when i first discovered the VHS recorder my mu had brought when i was a kid!!!!
ever since then (even on acid!) i have wanted such a capability and thought it was part of my 'Condition' & assumed no one else would think of such a bizarre thought!!!
man the times i have sat there wishing i could rewind life or even just my brain!!
the only way to stop global bandwidth running low is to reduce the cost of it!
at the moment it is seriously high in price
why because everyone needs it
it is just another strangle hold
throughout the world we fight fire with fire so i wonder if the same is possible with the virus....
fight the spread of pc virri with a virus thereby creating an 'anti-botnet' it could pretend to be the latest & greatest virus & reverse the effect's & slowly work it's way to the center.
opps sorry that was just a random thought from a pot head who does not live in canada!!!!
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libraries in UK
i am not sure if the same occur's alse where but here in the UK as well as borrowing books you can also borrow movies & music!
you used to be able to access video tapes & audio cassette's but these day's you can borrow Blue ray disc's, DVD's, cd's of music & audio books.
so i guess each time someone borrows one of those items that is yet another lost sale.
FFS when will they leave the public alone and just face the facts that their biz model is NOT working in anyway!
repsonse from my MP
Dear Thomas,
Thank you for your reply and for sending me the links to those articles. I thought it might help if I explained that these contain a couple of factual errors. Firstly, the computing article claims that amendment 120a gets ISPs to police websites and allows for people to be cut off from the internet. Neither of these are true. The clause that is now in the Bill sets up a system whereby a court can block a website if it believes it is facilitating a significant amount of illegal downloading and doing won't impact on legitimate users of the internet or on freedom of expression. This to me is a reasonable approach to take against such sites.
The clauses that deal with illegal file sharing and potential temporary suspension from the internet are clauses 10-17. However, these clauses cannot come into being for at least 12 months and only after Parliament has debated whether they are necessary. Again, this is a reasonable and proportionate approach to a problem that costs the economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
You may not be convinced but hopefully I have explained my thinking on these important issues.
Thanks again for getting in touch.
Best wishes,
THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME SONY HAVE RIPPED OFF AN ARTIST!
firstly i want to make it clear I am just a consumer/pirate/fan
ok here is the link to the full story:
http://www.renegaderhythms.com/home.html?main=http://www.renegaderhythms.com/articles/ur/sony_correspondence.html#121099
i have no doubt that this will continue in the future and regardless of who they do this to they will always try to force themselves onto any thing they think will make money
BOYCOTT THE BIG BUSINESS
ALL MUSICIANS NEED TO GO INDEPENDENT
NEW TECHNOLOGY WILL NEVER DIE NOR WILL IT BOW DOWN TO CORPORATE PRESSURE
FILE SHARERS ARE NOT THIEVES
MIDDLE FINGER UP TO THEM ALL
wouldn't it be good if some independent record labels began to run their own bitorrent trackers then we would have ethical/legal filesharing or maybe one run within RIAA HQ by some lil geek in a broom cupboard with only a monitor for light!
One thing above all over that seems to get forgotten is that humans SHARE .
Almost everything we do is centered around sharing either experiences or knowledge.
Even when we were cavemen & we discovered the DRUM what did we do?
went back to our colony and SHOWED OFF OUR NEW SKILL!
there by SHARING the experience so that OTHERS CAN DO IT TOO this then progressed to groups of humans gathering in one place and joining in with the drumming patterns they have learn with this new fancy object.
Now in the 21st century when we share music we run the risk of the people in control(the dictators!) saying that if we share new music with our friends and anyone else that it is wrong & illegal and we will be taken to court!
which is the same as one tribal chief going to a neighboring tribe and taking all their food on the premise that they took/stole a drum pattern without permission
if this had occurred back at that time we would probably not have the wide variety of music available today.
RIAA back off and work out a new damn business model based on ethics and sharing which seem to me to be the two most important qualities which you guy's seem to ignore because humans are sharing animal by nature.
BUT WAIT A MINUTE lets go to the other extreme and imagine a world where you have enforcers paroling everywhere looking for illegally shared music!
They strut about as if all music is theirs and make criminal out of those busker's on street corners who sing & play a guitar SO THEY CAN SHARE THEIR PERSONAL FAVORITE SONG, then what's that oh no some has company in his/her living room & they are listening to her/his music THATS SHARING which is illegal
piss off RIAA
why don't you go do something less boring instead!
UK advert
over in the UK we recently had a advert aired which was from T mobile BUT they were offering skype services via their network!!!
OMG
so what does this guy do when say a bunch of tourist's start taking pictures of our wonderful old building just at the same time this dude walks past in the background & BAM he has been caught walking down oxford street
does he then track down these so called tourist's and take them to court as well?
when are people going to pull their collective heads out of their nose bag's & realize a PUBLIC PLACE IS A PUBLIC PLACE.
STAY IN IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE SEEN.
be it a passer by, cctv, snappy tourist's, beggars, blaggers, cops on push bikes, cops on foot, me, you & the whole world have the ability to see YOU in some form or another either directly or by proxy face it when you are in a public place weather you know it or not there is the possiblity you will get spotted/snapped/tracked/questioned/quized/glanced at/spoken too
Why don't this dude make better use of his time by lobbying against the fact that you now need government permission to protest!
off topic
i wonder when facebook will employ SSL for their login system because at the moment all your login details are passed to the server from your browser in CLEAR TEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so in light of that lil nugget & the main topic the social engineer tryin to dupe you may actualy be using a real account! access to which could be gained by some variety of traffic sniffing!
WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW
i had this exact same thought when i first discovered the VHS recorder my mu had brought when i was a kid!!!!
ever since then (even on acid!) i have wanted such a capability and thought it was part of my 'Condition' & assumed no one else would think of such a bizarre thought!!!
man the times i have sat there wishing i could rewind life or even just my brain!!
now my world has trully shrunk
what
the only way to stop global bandwidth running low is to reduce the cost of it!
at the moment it is seriously high in price
why because everyone needs it
it is just another strangle hold
throughout the world we fight fire with fire so i wonder if the same is possible with the virus....
fight the spread of pc virri with a virus thereby creating an 'anti-botnet' it could pretend to be the latest & greatest virus & reverse the effect's & slowly work it's way to the center.
opps sorry that was just a random thought from a pot head who does not live in canada!!!!