Re: Net Closing In For Illegal TV/Content Downloading
This isn't a problem if you use a VPN router for your home network. Anything leaving the house will then be encrypted, so even if they are going to pry, they will only find useless data in random sequences.
They are trying to control the internet, but it isn't going to work if everybody seems to connect from the same exact spot. However, make sure you get a good VPN provider which doesn't log your IP. There are already quite some providers out there whom are secretly being used by governments and businesses to filter out their prey.
Keep the internet free guys! Use a VPN.
I also made a post about this on my blog, you can check it out here:
Also to reply to Realist, for many people computers and their workings are not so apparent. Especially when you have services like Netflix which are doing something similar but within legal ways. Plus often the kids of these people install their media world, so they just trust on their kids.
This can mean serious fines and possibly even imprisonment (which I find absurd), for people whom never knew they were doing anything wrong.
Apart from that the copyright thing is barely about truly protecting intellectual content. It's just a way a few companies are pressuring that they want their money. Meanwhile the internet is filled with people making money sharing their creative ideas.
It just shows to me that adapting their strategies is something they don't want to invest in. But guess what, the world is changing, so if you don't change with it, this is what happens.
Instead they should be looking for their own solutions to this problem by taking on the new mindset. And there are many solutions trust me.
You see it in the gaming world already where everything is being tied to an online server which will check if you are allowed to use it.
Movies and TV-shows could (and some already do) similar things by hosting live moments.
Look, I'm not saying everyone should start pirating, but perhaps this copyright thing should be evaluated a bit more in accordance with the world we live in today. Internet is not going away and putting rules on it is not going to work unless we start blocking other countries (which defeats the idea of the internet). So instead of figuring out problems like we used to, why not look at possibilities with our new options?
(Also, I would not be able to post here if rules dictated that I had to live in the UK)