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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's really no different to the telephone company logging all your phone calls, which has happened for many, many years. The important thing is that the information can only be handed over by the phone company on receipt of a court order, which is precisely what ISPs will be required to do under the proposed British legislation, for example. As long as there are adequate legal safeguards in place, I have absolutely no problem with this, personally.
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You really think we have the technology in the UK to monitor every single connection? To then take the data from those connections (must be in the mutliples of TB's per hour) and filter through them for IP content? Then identify, without any doubt (which is impossible) if that content breaks some IP law that might not even be valid in our country. We can't even institute a simple database for the NHS without screwing up. Apart from all the 'this is a compltely fascist idea that goes against freedom, privacy and the expectation of non-restricted communication' there's also the fact that the idea is completely dumb. Seriously dumb and won't work, can't work on any level.
ACTA is laughable and can never be properly enforced. Unless you want to house about 1/3 the population in IP prisons.