One of the prime movers was on "Today" this morning. Bleating the usual tosh about how downloading was robbing the artists, taking bread from the mouths of their families etc etc. They had some other bloke on there who pointed out that Internet Cafes would end up going out of business and that many people share an internet connection and to cut them off would be a ridiculous action to take if only one of them downloaded something.
We have one internet connection in this house. It is used for Work (Wife), Business (Me) School Work and Research (3 kids) We all use it wirelessly and simultaneously. THW or one of the boys could easily download something and infringe copyright laws without me knowing and get us "cut off". FFS I could do it myself by posting a YouTube clip or picture in here. They could, under this law, cut me off, deprive the family of employment and school related use and, presumably, come after the site for allowing it to be posted. Taken to extreme they could cut the internet connections for everyone who had viewed the offending material.
Of course "They" say this is not their intention but we have heard that too many times to believe it.
"They" said that the Anti Terror Laws were to only prevent us all from being blown to Kingdom Come and promptly used them to evict an 80 year old pensioner from the Labour Conference for telling Jack Straw that he was a liar ..... when everyone knows that is the truth about Straw.
If you ask me the only way to protect your copyright on anything is to NOT PUT IT ON THE FVCKING INTERNET IN THE FIRST PLACE!
