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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
To me it seems foolish to pass laws if: - the general public wouldn't approve
- it's too difficult and costly to police
- it's impossible to prove any given case
- it makes everyone below the age of 40 a criminal
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I don't know if you watched the discussion for this law or not (it will probaby be on Youtube if the government hasn't had it removed for copyright violation).
About 6 MPs attended, none of them brought up any of the many flaws regarding detection or the over the top punishments. One of them thought that an IP address was the location of a website that contained intellectual property. That's probably where the idea that an IP address proves guilt comes from. Then after about half an hour all the other MPs piled in and voted in favour of it.
If you add to that the BPI writing part of it themselves, the whole thing stinks of corruption to me. I was amazed that the news media (other than the Guardian) didn't pick up on any of this. But I guess that just shows how naive I am.