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Story: ISP: Wi-Fi test shows flaw in file-sharing crackdown

Posted by: Moley (Monday 19 October 2009, 7:21 PM)

The horse has bolted

The action that should have been taken, when file sharing was in it's infancy, was to target the suppliers and facilitators of files to be shared, rather than the 'consumer'. Their actions surely were illegal under any kind of regime, without resorting to any new legislation, and if not, legislation could have been quickly enough passed.

This, as I understand it, is also now the preferred method of dealing with another intransigent problem - drugs.

There is, and never was, any moral justification for wholesale file sharing. I'm not a Troll, I just do not like being subject to ever more restrictive (draconian) regimes as a result of certain other people's bad behaviour. Not only file sharing, of course, and not only on the internet (e.g. I.D. Cards, 'Vet and Bar' etc. etc. etc.).

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