Shape of Things to Come?

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ISPs playing hardball over file sharing?

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/24/karoo_p2p/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/24/karoo_p2p/</a>

 

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Twats! They're just taking advantage of the fact they have a captive market in Hull, its a special case as its always had its own phone provider. Fortunately for us, most ISPs have to take into account the fact that their customers can easily switch to a competitor if they piss them off, I do expect them to collectively toughen up over the next few years though.

 

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I'm a little in two minds over this; I wouldn't dream of walking into HMV or wherever and picking up a CD without paying. That's stealing , right? Yet pretty much everyone downloads music or movies, which in effect is the same thing as stealing. It's hard to have sympathy for someone like Elton John that is rumoured to spend around £20K per month on flowers when he whinges about the effects of file sharing so that makes me a little bit of a hypocite!

I pay the PRS licence fee at work to do my bit, it's only fair as I love my music....and I hammered Napster back in the day when Shaun Fanning was still 17, and the internet was not even heard of. Don't bother now because I don't need to I've pretty much got all the music I could possibly listen to in 10 lifetimes.

I heard that some people download videos on youtube and can actually save the music video using <a class="postlink" href="http://www.keepvid.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.keepvid.com</a> and that they then rip the audio from the video to save space on the pc using DVDsoft youtube to mp3 convertor. I think hypothetically that's a way around the people in Hull from this type of restriction and would be virus, spyware free as well.

 

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All the people of hull need to do is pay for a rapidshare account and do all there downloading through FTP. It might cost more (55 Euros a year) but its completely safe with super speed.