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All In With The Nuts
As if ACTA won't screw individuals enough...
UK’s TalkTalk, BT Group Lose Appeal Against Digital Economy Act

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Tuesday, 6 March 2012 15:34

While anti-piracy legislation is at a standstill in the US, the path was cleared in the UK today for the Digital Economy Act, a law that requires Internet providers to crack down on suspected pirates. London’s Court of Appeals thwarted a challenge to the Act from two of the country’s leading broadband companies, TalkTalk Telecom and the BT Group, by upholding a lower court’s decision that the Act is consistent with European laws.

The move allows officials to finally begin implementing the legislation which has been slow to move forward since it was originally established in 2010. Under the Act, rights holders will inform ISPs when they have suspicions of material being illegally downloaded. The ISPs will then be required to alert suspects in writing under a graduated response system that could ultimately result in penalties.

The 2 operators in question contended that it was not for them to police their customers, citing excessive costs and the question of invasion of privacy. The decision comes a little less than 2 months after the US put the controversial PIPA and SOPA bills on hold.

Industry groups in the UK today welcomed the news. Lavinia Carey, chief of the British Video Association, said the org was “delighted that the Government can now press on with implementation of notice-sending under the 2010 Digital Economy Act. The video industry generates the single largest source of returns on investment for film producers and takes the greatest hit in terms of damage inflicted by illicit file-sharing of video content. The DEA offers a fair, proportionate and entirely reasonable way to help promote a change in behaviour to support our industry’s public awareness campaigns which are designed to signpost the many legal options for accessing video entertainment.”
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How is this playing in the UK?
 
the lazy sods have to finish up in the pubs before you'll find out.

ALSO, the Euro match is starting in about 45 mins. .....which means I better get the stew assembled so the minions wont suspect I've been watching footy all afternoon...
 
That's a really unfortunate outcome from my point of view, as well, since Germany's data protection comissioner based our refusal to join ACTA on the EU's concern reg. the protection of privacy. Now that the UK actually allows the DEA to be applied, the comissioner's position will be considerably weakened and the conservative party will probably have their way.
 
For whatever reason, it hasn't been mentioned in tv news today, as far as I've seen.

I wonder if there'll be any distinction between people who seed torrents, and people who just download them and immediately bugger off. And I wonder which ISPs will become known as the most lax. BT already take measures to stop people using P2P networks, so it looks like I should go back to Orange, who don't even have usage limits.
 
In the US, the MPAA (movie cartel) & RIAA (music caretl)) have almost been more determined to go after downloaders, only because they are easier to push around and intimidate. They make an example of some 12 year old girl by causing her parents to cough up thousands of dollars, thinking that it will scare off all the other kids & non-l33t users from downloading too. (Not bloody likely)
 
Not when torrenting remains the quickest and most versatile way of obtaining content. What these companies don't seem to understand, is that is that people don't just torrent because they're cheapskates. Everyone I know downloads illegally, from the well payed, to the no payed. It's about being able to get any show, right now, in the format, and at the file size that one wants, while having easy control over the download's bandwidth allocation and avoiding any silly DRMs.
 
Yup. No matter how hard the studios/labels try, consumers will never settle for not physically owning what they purchase. You can only sell so many things via subscription/streaming. When I buy an album or movie/TV show, I want it outright, not some password to enter in order to play it in some low res, hoping my bandwidth is good.
 
If Community got a fourth season and I wasn't able to download it, I'd literally kill myself.

Sky have let me get away with illegally downloading for five years now, so hopefully their detection methods will be really crappy, if they're forced to put them in place.
 
I wonder if there'll be a BT advert where the boy is hauled away by investigators and strip searched... for usb sticks, or whatever. I do hope so.
 
And we see that Aspy Guy grassed him up and he says "it's just you and me now" to the girl and she slaps him.
 
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