But I am hoping for Be* to make a similar announcement..

*please please please*

They’re only promising to stonewall up until the election. The act doesn’t come into force yet.

Admittedly, they are still promising to campaign against it, which is good.

That Reg article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/09/talktalk_org_mandybill_fail/

However, I vehemently hate that argument. Just because I have nothing to hide does not give you the right to go through my shit. Your business model should not require me to compromise my privacy. So thanks for bribing my politicians and screwing up my democracy.

The day the #debill becomes law is the day I stop going to the cinema and paying for MP3s. I won’t pirate stuff instead, cos I don’t need to be entertained by your crappy media. I can play guitar, I’ll write my own songs. I have a camera, I’ll make my own films. Perhaps without all your bullshit distractions, I’ll be more creative and more productive, and I’ll replace you with something wholly more interesting.

Assuming that they’ve not been disconnected.

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

One of the happier interactions I have had with a corp in the last few years…

I watched the 90 min doc about One Eyed Doll last week and I was fascinated. Now there’s a band that’s just grinding it out without any label support. Mesmerising!

Actually, that’s a thought. Is there an online resource listing artists that do an end-run around music companies?

Sometimes it’s difficult to tell, too. I see an artist online — Will Tang, to pluck a name out of my head at psuedorandom — and I wonder how much of the download cost is going to a music company.

The interests of Hollywood lawyers are at odds with the interests of all ISPs. Under these circumstances, I don’t see why any ISP would comply.

I might object a little if you rifle through my stuff if you think I am dangerous. I *totally* object if it’s about a two-bit pop song.

The real danger is that this BS of bending over for crappy music/entertainment businesses devalues any hardcore enforcement by the law.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/09/talktalk_org_mandybill_fail/

“After the election we will resume highlighting the substantial dangers inherent in the proposals and that the hoped for benefits in legitimate sales will not materialise as filesharers will simply switch to other undetectable methods to get content for free. In the meantime we stand by our pledges to our customers:”

NOTE: “In the meantime”. This means “until the election on May 6th.” . In 4 weeks. So in the next four weeks…

“Unless we are served with a court order we will never surrender a customer’s details to rightsholders. We are the only major ISP to have taken this stance and we will maintain it.”

NOTE: Fine, and this holds for many ISPs but means nothing because a) you already do this and b) you’re only “maintaining” it until May 6th

“If we are instructed to disconnect an account due to alleged copyright infringement we will refuse to do so and tell the rightsholders we’ll see them in court.”

NOTE: Yes, but ONLY UNTIL “after the election”.! Four weeks away!

And given you’ll only get such requests “before the election” from deranged space maniacs, this means precisely fuck all. Less than fuck all in fact, because it’s a weasel-worded paranoia-based market share grab.

Cory, don’t believe the hype dude.

TalkTalks proclamation today is misrepresentation and just marketing for their own services. I hope if it comes to it that they do stand by their word. I would love to see this go to court.

I’d rather stick with BE and use something like iPredator

….Everyone else did understand that, right? ;)

I’m sure people would have tales of similar experiences with the provider we stuck with, but every time I see the words (word?) TalkTalk nowadays, I have to suppress a shudder. The real kicker is that our original/current IP is a subsidiary of TalkTalk. So hopefully we’ll get the same policy anyway. Though whether this headline-friendly pledge will be adhered to when push comes to shove, I’m not so sure.

Disclosure: I am almost entirely ignorant of British libel/slander law.

there is a clause inside this law that protects the media industry from prosecution for vexatious claims, also the “independent” tribunal we must go to, to fight these claims is bank rolled by the media industry, as our right to a day in court has been trampled on and destroyed. we are also liable for all our expensive legal costs and cannot get any help from legal aid.

this bill was designed to bypass our legal democratic right, also we are now guilty until proven innocent.

/I deal with TimeWarner for now – great DL speeds (up to 1MBs) but crappy upload speeds (lucky to see 40KBs)

I expect some of the ISPs that are also media providers (e.g. Virgin, as they do cable TV too) won’t be so quick to make a similar announcement.

“the stage is set for big corporate copyright holders to begin sending ISPs ordering them to disconnect customers who are believed to infringe copyright.”

While we’re at it, let’s look at: “lifeline to the digital society”

Lifeline? really?