Comments on: Digital Britain: UK Music proposes five measures for persistent file-sharers

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Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:47:41 +0000

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By: Dance Platform

Dance Platform — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:33:47 +0000

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Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:25:23 +0000

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By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:00:04 +0000

Make no mistake, ‘UK music companies have exceeded themselves’ DESPITE the music industry. The industry has consistently put barriers in front of online music companies. Unrealistic royalty rates anyone?

I find it funny that UK Music can now come up with a statement like this bearing in mind their thoughts with regard to YouTube and other online music delivery companies.

By: pjjo

pjjo — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:37:28 +0000

I agree with Anon!! Dead right

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:53:52 +0000

Frankly, I find this entire article, and the whole Digital Britain piece abhorant.

“UK music companies have exceeded themselves in terms of innovation and experimentation, offering unprecedented access and choice to music fans” WHAT?! WHEN!? The only fair part of this statement is that they have ‘exceeded themselves’, which is obviously true given that they have stagnated the marketplace for decades.

The five proposals are laughable, and the reason for their existance, terrifying. The proposals themselves sound far more like good conduct rules on a forum or online game. The reason for their existance is what really troubles me though:

Not mentioned here is that in the Digital Britain article, the government outlines its plan to reduce file sharing by 70% (arbitrary number much??) in 1 year. How? By telling the ISPs to do it for them. What happens if they don’t? Well, if they can’t reduce it by 70% in 12 months, the government is giving themselves the power to up the anti. How?

Filtering.

As far as I’m aware, there are no illegal file sharing websites. It’s incredulous to suggest that banning sites such as bittorrent and thepiratebay is a justified step in the fight against copyright infringement.

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Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:07:02 +0000

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By: i-penny

i-penny — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:02:36 +0000

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Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:57:49 +0000

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By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:16:33 +0000

As the French case demonstrates, if the Government wants to argue that internet access is effectively a universal right, and a fundamental utility, then chopping someone’s service for file-sharing is a basic breach of human rights …

No-one thinks letters will be effective, but it’s rapidly getting to the stage when we should be asking why anyone would bother downloading illegally. I can get pretty much what I want, when I want, on Spotify or all sorts of other services.

Of course, we haven’t been telling the industry this for more than five years. Bah.