Panorama - Are the Net Police Coming for You?

A proposed new law is threatening to disconnect the millions of internet users who unlawfully download free music, films and TV. Jo Whiley looks at how your broadband use at home may never be the same, and could even be cut off

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Science & Technology

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• torrents
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• hackers
• hacking

[CMob09]

Computer games have individual passcodes, artists should have some kind of passcode on their cd's and songs.

[DundeeDude]

@CMob09 you can get protected content... but it can already be cracked lol.

[TVScio]

God bless the internets built in democracy lol

Where the music companies try to protect the interests of a few, the internet has millions of people protecting their interests. Good luck trying to stop them.

If as a majority the people decided music was worth 19.99 a CD, we would buy em. Whatever happened to selling a reasonably priced product...

[JuIsTheLaw]

Filesharing is a Pandora's box that has already been opened and there's no going back; it's all summed up at 10:13.

Not to mention, our entire monetary system is fundamentally flawed and self-destructive anyway, so this whole argument is pointless as long as money is the issue...

[AnotherWayToDie14]

i have to watch this for media. kill me.

[MirHassanProductions]

The music industry have to realize that people are no longer willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money for the shit they produce.

[PeeingMyOwnBlood]

Anyone know the title of that German techno track?

[theSharperEnd]

@CMob09 Yeah, tell that to Sony who had the brilliant idea of installing spyware on computers via audio CD's. That cost them a fortune and a heap of public embarrassment.

[theSharperEnd]

The answer is mind-numbingly simple. It's copyright, so it's owned by a copyright holder. A user simply maintains a yearly subscription to that copyright holder (say 20 dollars per year) and that user is entitled to access every piece of media released by that copyright holder. I'd pay $20 p.a. to Sony BMG for that arrangement. Do that for five major music labels and you wouldn't have to hit a torrent to have gigabytes of media. And eliminate regions. Regions are the legacy of public ignorance.

[KINGKENNYTHEHOLY]

IP logging= proxy IP= Tracing IP's from torrent software will be mostly meaningless=well,linking sites are way faster anyway and with little to no risk of detection at all..so way ahead of you...get with the times grandpa:P

Multimillion dollar corporations vs piracy=a lost battle in the little guys favour..free will win out over paying any day of the week and twice on sunday..

[benstacey1]

Oh yeah and mega-CD sales are a nuance, they broke into the market in the early nineties and CD sales peaked in 1999. thats along time to sit on your corporate ass suing everybody and trying to save a failing business model. Adapt or get stuffed.