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UK going wild .. - EvilGate - 01-07-2009
The power of anti piracy organizations is constantly growing and latest news from Great Britain sounds somehow scary: The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people's personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union's council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives "a coach and horses" through privacy laws. The hacking is known as "remote searching". It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone's PC at his home, office or hotel room. Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging.
Under the Brussels edict, police across the EU have been given the green light to expand the implementation of a rarely used power involving warrantless intrusive surveillance of private property. The strategy will allow French, German and other EU forces to ask British officers to hack into someone's UK computer and pass over any material gleaned. A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he "believes" that it is "proportionate" and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime — defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years. The authorities could break into a suspect's home or office and insert a "key-logging" device into an individual's computer. This would collect and, if necessary, transmit details of all the suspect's keystrokes. The Home Office said it was working with other EU states to develop details of the proposals.
Source: The Times
Re: UK going wild .. - HoogerBooger - 01-07-2009
People should just stop downloading huge amounts of commercial shit which in most cases is always copyrighted by big record labels and distributors (for instance EMI, SONY). When downloading underground music/films/whatever (which in fact are more quality at 99,9% cases) you just stay under the radar and no-one really gives a flying f what you have on your HDD.
Good luck to you British *snip* who are downloading daily some Kate Perry, Britney Spears and silly 3.0 out of 10 IMDB rated Hollywood trash with great sales figures.
That's the punishment for you trash-media-consuming-people, pump up your quality control.
Re: UK going wild .. - Dust - 01-07-2009
They're doing almost the same thing in sweden soon.
Soon you'll get a bill mailed to your mailbox with an amount of cash which you have to pay, unless you want to be taken to court etc etc. (the billing part will only occure if a big brand like; warnerbros w/e, have located your IP address as a seeder via a bitTorrent client w/e on one of their products)
There's no such thing as a free lunch!
Re: UK going wild .. - Mike - 01-08-2009
Wow. I thought RIAA was bad, and that's not even a government organization.
Re: UK going wild .. - Carcass - 01-08-2009
yeah a damn british anti piracy team shut down the world's biggest private music tracker "Oink" a few years ago.-.-
Re: UK going wild .. - Maddolis - 01-08-2009
Glad to see the UK police grabbing the problem by the balls.
Good on them- I even heard Officer Bernie is working the nightshift to get this problem sorted.
Re: UK going wild .. - [BoD]GunSta - 01-08-2009
lol its just BS think there gonna get in like 30 million pcs?
Re: UK going wild .. - HoogerBooger - 01-08-2009
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lol its just BS think there gonna get in like 30 million pcs?
Well, technically they might get, but the problem starts when like 90% of the people getting the invoices will reply "wtf" to them, hence there will be a need for like 1 million extra departments handling strictly those claims and the issues related.
Instead of trying to push those massive anti-piracy campaigns, the industry should focus on their price politics. I mean like 17 Euros for a goddamn CD which includes a song which has been played on radio so much that my ears are starting to bleed and 11 more straight up fillers, what in the f? They should pay me for even downloading that bullshit from the torrent site, them goddamn retards.
For instance, look what Radiohead did with their latest? album. They uploaded the album to their website in full bitrate and let people decide exactly how much they are willing to pay for the album. What a stylish move and a great pisstake towards the greedy record labels at the same time. I can't tell exactly, but as far as I know, the sales figures were quite decent anyway.
Point is that there is a market out there and there is a non-market out there which will never ever buy the stuff anyway.
Re: UK going wild .. - g3344 - 01-08-2009
Ahh crapos....Why do I have to live in the U.K???? I'm moving to Iceland, and maybe I can get some of our monies back!
Oh wells, I will talk to our local police officer Mike Hunt.
Re: UK going wild .. - HoogerBooger - 01-08-2009
(01-08-2009, 11:26 AM)Jordi link Wrote: Ahh crapos....Why do I have to live in the U.K???? I'm moving to Iceland, and maybe I can get some of our monies back!
Question: "Hey, what's the capital of Iceland?"
Answer: "About 2 cents"