Government reviving Net Cut-off Plan

Posted August 25th, 2009 by Josh No Comments »
So it would seem that the British government is looking again at reviving its ridiculous scheme to disconnect web users who download music via peer-to-peer file sharing systems. Our already (mostly) useless ISP’s who already struggle to provide reasonable services to their users are now going to be charged with the additional duty of ‘policing the Internet’!ith
Apparenly its got nothing to do with Lord Mandleson have a meeting with David Geffen, Music Exec and media mogul, who do they think they are kidding, really?!
So great, some Amer-ee-can git with a few quid has ‘words’ with our Secretary of State and suddenly the whole UK government is on one to bust the evil Internet Pirates.
Really, why are our government so concearned with helping Geffen and his rich buddies continue to line their pockets? Everyone knows that musicians make most of their money doing tours etc and actually make very little from album and single sales. Honestly, I really dont want to hurt the musicians. I love music and I think theres some really great tallent around at the moment, but please, dont put some up-and-coming nobody artists on the tv to try and convince us how much we are hurting them with our evil downloading ways. These nobody artists pedling this corporate crap dont fool anybody and more to the point for them, make themselves look like complete assholes.
Well hopefully, knowing our current government and their history of crazy plans and gimicky ideas, it will fizzle out. If not, theres always newsnet. :D

So it would seem that the British government is looking again at reviving its ridiculous scheme to disconnect web users who download music via peer-to-peer file sharing systems. Our already (mostly) useless ISP’s who already struggle to provide reasonable services to their users are now going to be charged with the additional duty of ‘policing the Internet’!

Apparenly its got nothing to do with Lord Mandelson have a meeting with David Geffen, Music Exec and media mogul, who do they think they are kidding, really?!

So great, some Amer-ee-can git with a few quid has ‘words’ with our Secretary of State and suddenly the whole UK government is on one to bust the evil Internet Pirates.

Really, why are our government so concearned with helping Geffen and his rich buddies continue to line their pockets? Everyone knows that musicians make most of their money doing tours etc and actually make very little from album and single sales. Honestly, I really dont want to hurt the musicians. I love music and I think theres some really great tallent around at the moment, but please, dont put some up-and-coming nobody artists on the tv to try and convince us how much we are hurting them with our evil downloading ways. These nobody artists pedling this corporate crap dont fool anybody and more to the point for them, make themselves look like complete assholes.

Well hopefully, knowing our current government and their history of crazy plans and gimicky ideas, it will fizzle out. If not, theres always newsnet. :D

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