‘Piracy’ could boost UK broadband costs
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- UK government plans to force ISPs to to perform as taxpayer funded corporate entertainment industry police aren’t only doomed to fail, but may cost the industry £1 million ($C1,749,548) a day.
And you know who’ll be expected to pick up the slack.
Jane and Joe Muggins, that’s who — the people Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music are currently trying to sue into becoming compliant consumers of corporate crap.
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “The music industry claims illegal file sharing accounts for more than £200 million a year in lost revenue,” says the Mirror online.
“This figure grows substantially when movies and computer games are thrown into the mix.”
Now, “Tackling internet piracy could push up broadband bills by £24 a year,” BT warns spoksman John Petter, says the story, going on:
“Petter insists BT respects copyright laws and objects to being asked to do other people’s dirty work.”
“Laws already exist to enable music companies and other copyright holders to prosecute offenders but they don’t want to take the hit to their public image,” he says in the post, which adds:
“He says if internet firms have to invest in technology to tackle the problem it will lead to an ‘arms race’ similar to that between drug cheats in athletics and sport authorities. ‘It would cost millions and probably have very little impact as they would devise new ways to disguise what they’re doing’.”
And what’s true in Britain, will also be true in other countries which seemed determined to meet Big Music’s demands, in particular, France, New Zealand, Australia, and South Korea.
No need to stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
entertainment industry police – entertainment industry police, September 4, 2009
Mirror – Internet piracy policing could add £24 to every phone bill, September 22, 2009
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September 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
“He says if internet firms have to invest in technology to tackle the problem it will lead to an ‘arms race’ similar to that between drug cheats in athletics and sport authorities. ‘It would cost millions and probably have very little impact as they would devise new ways to disguise what they’re doing’.”
For example, all Cisco 6500 switches, installed by several European ISPs including Deutsche
Telekom and Telekom Italia, have a deep packet inspection technology capability.
http://www.iptegrity.com/pdf/dpi.telecom.package.monica.horten.26aug2008.pdf
See page 23
http://docstore.mik.ua/univercd/cc/td/doc/solution/sce_dpi.pdf
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:00 pm
You know what? There some software down there that allow a PC to PC connection via the wifi card of PCs
What this mean is that these software allow the development of an alternative to internet based on p2p that also can access internet via nodes for free. If ISP become too crapy to expensive or too repressive this network will develop and reach world wide scale and will be capable of reaching speed of at least 54mb/sec!
I would love such a network!
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:03 am
Deep packet inspection will only ever be able to show the encrypted files passing through the ISP portal but it wont be able to know what those files are and thus they will have no leg to stand on for throttling such traffic as they do currently nor any liability for it, so I,m all for them to play these childish games, we on the filesharing side will not allow big business to dictate how we distribute our own files and will step up the game into a fully fledged war if thats what they want.