In an Open Letter sent to The Times last week, the heads of the major Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the UK, as well as representatives of the Open Rights Group, Which? and Consumer Focus, all protested to the plans to disconnect "repeat offenders" of P2P piracy from the Internet.
"Consumers must be presumed to be innocent unless proven guilty," the letter read. "We must avoid an ... [ read the full article ]
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And it also turns out that the BPI (RIAA) cooked all the numbers are tried to convince people that the data was gathered by an independent source when it was the RIAA that made up the data in the first place.
The government's dizzying statistic that over seven million Brits are involved in online piracy comes from dubious research commissioned by the music industry itself.
When the UK government advisory body, the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property, released an 85-page report in May pronouncing billions of pounds worth of economic losses and thousands of jobs lost annually due to illegal downloads, its claim of more than seven million freeloaders residing in Britain made headlines.
But the BBC Radio 4 show More or Less has investigated the figure and uncovered not only its rather questionable origin, but the massive statistical assumptions used to arrive at seven million.
if you are in the UK you can listen to the radio 4 show that exposes the lies of the BPI (RIAA) here
Also P2P programs are not illegal in the first place in fact I read from Wikipedia's Video on Demand page is that P2P programs were a huge part of Video on Demand in the first place plus when using P2P's on this mini section of the same page is that using P2P programs do not infringe on copyright. Its just really amazing that with Legal video on demand it was born by so called "illegal file sharing" a issue if you think about it the entertainment industry began in the first place(If what the wikipedia article on VOD is true completely)
With the ISP's and those two groups after the UK's RIAA for this rap you know the UK RIAA will lose big.
Sorry tristen but the corporations infiltrate the government through backhanders, contributions, second jobs & promises of top positions when MP's leave cabinet.
The RIAA (BPI) lobbyists (liars/salesmen) pay hundreds of thousands to buy officials in one way or another.
If you listen to the radio 4 programme they state that the BPI would not allow them to see the original report but only supplied the cooked up numbers, if the report was correct why would they not release it for public scrutiny?
The report is what the "P2P disconnection plan" is based upon.
I'd imagine taking a few dozen really cheap netbooks, obtaining access to open/easily accessed wifi networks, then simply pinging known watched terms/torrents. That would solve the problem rather quickly, especially if one were to find its way onto a member of parliaments home network.
