Download a File, Lose Your Internet Service

[Parrot]

Legislation expected to be introduced in United Kingdom next week reportedly proposes to legally require Internet providers to warn, suspend, and even terminate service for users suspected of knowingly downloading copyrighted music and movies.

Broadband companies who fail to enforce the “three-strikes” regime would be prosecuted and suspected customers’ details could be made available to the courts. The Government has yet to decide if information on offenders should be shared between ISPs. Six million broadband users are estimated to download files illegally every year in this country in a practice that music and film companies claim is costing them billions of pounds in lost revenue annually.

[Toucan]

i actually dont download stuff illegally anyway, so i dont care

[Iakimo]

Sounds like the proposed legislation would pose an enforcement/detection nightmare.

[A'Ton Sands]

Well because of this sort of thing, anonymous P2P applications are being developed.

Best of luck to the ISP trying to decipher that lot.
There is also the question of Prof.
Oh lets wait and see I guess.

[Istik]

Most torrent programs have some form of encryption already. I use the maximum transport encrytion level and have no problem getting the files i need.

[A'Ton Sands]

Most torrent programs have some form of encryption already. I use the maximum transport encrytion level and have no problem getting the files i need.

The encryption of the transport isn't the problem, all that you need to do to find out if someone is sharing a file is join a swarm and download it from a specific ip address.

There are new p2p applications coming that obstruficate IP addresses, I guess we will have to wait to see how well they work.