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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
believe it or not, they DO respect the rights and livelyhood of authors and musicians !! completely !! and in fact they are in favor of keeping copyright, although definitely not in the bloated and abusive form it currently has. can't argue with that !
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"Bloated and abusive"? Pardon me? Do you really consider it "abusive" for an author to want to get paid for sales of his books, rather than allowing them to be downloaded free of charge from BT sites?
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however they also are pretty attached to their privacy, as individuals, and don't like the idea of ISPs playing the internet police. which seems like a pretty reasonable point of view to me too.
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All that's being proposed, as I understand the EU legislation, is that if a copyright holder can show that their material is being offered for download illegally, the ISP will be obliged to provide personal details of the "owner" of that IP address. If the person ignores repeated warnings, their internet access will be terminated. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me - it's no different from banning from driving someone who persistently commits driving offences.