British ISP's grassing on us!!!

[Ulysses]

I read a recent article in last weeks micro mart here in the uk

 

See below

 

"As of now all you pirates had better beware as a new legislation has come in to effect that means ISP's have to share your information with the long arm of the law if they are asked for it.

 

This has come straight from the bewigged ones at the high courtwho are firmly backing the BPI's efforts against the evils of illicit file sharing. Over 31 song snitchers have already been pin pointed and there ISP's have just 14 days to give there details to the big boys. Looks like they have done with the softly, softly approuch and are onto the heavy artillery"

 

Surely this breaks the data protection act??

[mcant]

I remember the last college course i did, we had an afternoon covering the data protection act, misuse of computers acts, etc

 

We decided that we broke almost every regulation daily as part of our course! :rolleyes:

 

(Next day we had a dumb health and safety part which included safe lifting, after we all passed. we lugged all the stuff back. monitors on top of servers and the like, lol)

 

Real world and legislation never sems to match does it?

 

I'm still not gonna worry, ISPs want my money more than they want to shaft me

[hendo001]

well if the cops say ur breaking the law then they have to apply for a warrent to ur isp which means they gotta go to court first.

 

if not then they are breaking the law and cant touch u :p

[vystral]

The law has been that way for a while. Its called a subpoena. You are not a primary target for the law unless you have over like 8000-10000 songs or a few hard drives full of movies/TV shows.

[Ulysses]

Actually I think they are probably going to be after the people that download them, copy them and sell em at markets etc etc

[maverick]

Actually I think they are probably going to be after the people that download them' date=' copy them and sell em at markets etc etc[/quote']

 

i hope so. theyre gonna be busy boys if theyre after everyone who file shares.

 

 

[Ulysses]

lmao yeah i know lol....dont wanna tell em how much i have downloaded in the last 2 months lol :(

[ghostwolf357]

Man Id hate to live over there were the right to get stoned is ok, just can't go hunting or fising or share a file with a few of your friends. Thats why we had a revolution in the first place, to many nowitalls, course the same thing can be said about Bush.

[kyran]

The law has been that way for a while. Its called a subpoena. You are not a primary target for the law unless you have over like 8000-10000 songs or a few hard drives full of movies/TV shows.

 

Boy am i in the shit

[str82u]

I don't know how much I have they would not like, but doesn't a firewall help alot? My firewall (Zone Alarm) will tell me when the ISP pings me to see what I'm up to (or whatever it is they are looking for) but the firewall makes me look invisible (or so it says).

I realize that the government can get around that, but if I'm invisilble to the ISP, does my connection to Azureus or other P2P programs give me up?

Any ideas?

[moomini]

i generally download, watch, and delete..... if i had almost everything deleted (most of what i do have is tv shows anyway) if they busted me, they wouldnt really be able to do much i.

 

i dont get how they can say that downloading is illegal, if broadcasting a pirate radio station for example is illegal, but listening to it isnt... "broadcasting" files on the net (sharing) should be illegal, but downloading (listening) shouldnt imho

 

also, as im on AOL (which is obv american, can they be made to tell on me?)