The right to peer inside your iPod

[Sweetpea]

The heads of the G8 governments, meeting this week, are about to ratify the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), which - it's claimed - could let customs agents search your laptop or music player for illegally obtained content.

The European Parliament is considering a law that would lead to people who illicitly download copyrighted music or video content being thrown off the internet. Virgin Media is writing to hundreds of its customers at the request of the UK record industry to warn them that their connections seem to have been used for illegal downloading.

Viacom gets access to all of the usernames and IP addresses of anyone who has ever used YouTube as part of its billion-dollar lawsuit in which it claims the site has been party to "massive intentional copyright infringement".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/10/intellectualproperty.law


Big Brother? Can't make my mind up. I have no illegal music, I have bought every track. But it had to come I suppose.

[poppy]

I dont own an ipdod, I do have music that I have bought and paid for from itunes

[Churchill]

This is purely commercial crime, I don't see why they need to give the dead heads more power over this.

[Haqa]

Originally Posted by Churchill

This is purely commercial crime, I don't see why they need to give the dead heads more power over this.

Because they can see money, and that's all that matters to them, not people, not real crime, not lives, livelihoods, neighbourhoods, history, culture or all of the other things they should be defending on our behalf, just the almighty dollar (And yes I mean dollar, not pound or any European currency...), the USA pulls the strings and Europe (and by extensions Britain) dances to their tune...

H.