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Originally Posted by HarryT
You're right, they don't agree with me. I believe that are wrong, but that's just my personal opinion, of course. Why should they be forced to intervene? Because they are really the only ones in a position to do so.
If you mean that people should be free to break the law with impunity, then I'm afraid I don't agree with you. Copyright infringement is an issue that needs to be tackled, and I hope that this law will go some of the way to do that. Time will tell.
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Edit note: Oh, screw it, I didn't notice this thread was already seven pages long. Someone else has hopefully already said what I wanted to, but you'll have to read it again. I can't take this message away. Sorry.
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I agree with you, Harry. But I think the Post Office has been around a lot longer than the ISPs. Why not start with them? Get them to open every letter and parcel and stop illicitly copied cd's and dvd's, not to say all the porn videos, drugs, smuggled alcohol and other things that people send to one another.
Come to think of it, the roads have been around even longer than the post office. Let's make the road authorities responsible for everything people carry in their bags and under their arms in cars, trucks and buses.
Then, when we've got that lot under control, we can turn to the newer technologies.
There was a great quote in "Jurassic Park" by the mathematician guy played so well by Jeff Goldblum, something along the lines of "They were so blinded by the fact that they could, they forgot to ask whether they should."
Crime or not, an IP4 packet is as sealed to the carrier as the envelope in which I send my sister pirated dvd's.