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=sw=warlord
May 1st, 2010, 06:00 PM
I've only just heard about this because apparently the media doesn't find this worthy of reporting.
Wash-up
Quoted from wikipedia.


The Bill was debated at a brief committee stage during the "wash up" period after the general election was announced in April 2010, and a few controversial clauses were dropped. 38 Degrees, who are working with the Open Rights Group to mobilise opposition to the bill, state that over 22,000 people have emailed their MPs through their web site. 38 Degrees have also raised over £20,000 in donations to fund newspaper ads against the bill. More than 35,000 people signed a Number 10 petition[22], started by Andrew Heaney at ISP TalkTalk, objecting to being disconnected without fair trial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2010

Basicly from what I understand of this, you can be accused of copyright infringement and get your connection cut off without a fair warning.
What The Fuck...

Kornman00
May 1st, 2010, 06:32 PM
Oh thank god, it's UK based. Thought this was American for a moment.

Sorry mate :x

Cagerrin
May 1st, 2010, 06:41 PM
Move to Canada?

FireDragon04
May 1st, 2010, 06:42 PM
Our ISP has been doing this for ages, i got cut off once and had to sign a sheet saying i didn't do anything wrong, and i will not attempt to do anything within the realm of copyright infringement...and all that jazz...

=sw=warlord
May 1st, 2010, 06:58 PM
Move to Canada?

I don't want to have to learn French or end everything I say with "Eh".
:smithparrot:

annihilation
May 1st, 2010, 07:15 PM
You got it better than Australia.

FireDragon04
May 1st, 2010, 07:32 PM
You got it better than Australia.
^^QFT

Too true!

NuggetWarmer
May 1st, 2010, 07:33 PM
Only in the UK...

n00b1n8R
May 1st, 2010, 09:35 PM
/me downloads copy-writed materials~

SiriusTexra
May 1st, 2010, 10:09 PM
Hey Canada, your next.

Then America ofc.

Amit
May 1st, 2010, 10:10 PM
That would never happen in America. Everyone in NA loves to download music, movies, games, etc.

Cortexian
May 2nd, 2010, 03:13 AM
Hey Canada, your next.
Not going to happen in any period of time that I'll actually give a shit about.

Bhamid
May 2nd, 2010, 11:23 AM
*Sigh*, TalkTalk says they hate it etc, but i looked on Vuze's list of ISPs that throttle Bittorrent traffic and they were one of them :(.

sleepy1212
May 3rd, 2010, 09:03 AM
the regulation of the use of the electromagnetic spectrum

wtf :cop:

LlamaMaster
May 3rd, 2010, 11:57 AM
Sorry about your country mate. 4chan was already shitting themselves when they banned loli (read: all anime) over there, and now they be takin' yer nets. You might as well pack up and leave, eh? World be goin' to hell~