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The City of London police is setting up a dedicated intellectual property crime unit, which will directly target individual downloaders of copyrighted material.
Business secretary Vince Cable announced the measure, which will be online and ready to analyse the packets of file-sharing suspects some time during 2013. Cable also says the government will run a national ad campaign, warning young people of the, er, dangers of illegal downloads, such as… we’ll wait and see what the posters say.
The moves will “encourage and cement success and growth” according to Cable, with a possible £7.9bn being added to the UK economy as part of a wider reworking of all copyright and IP laws.
There’s also good news for the UK’s inventors, with Cable planning to push through an amendment to our patent laws, meaning an idea should be locked down and enforceable within 90 days. That’ll please Sir Dyson, who’s been banging on about the unfairness in the global patent system for years. [Guardian]
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Yeah, because catching, arresting and dealing with REAL criminals is, well, feckin tiresome…
(Like the thug who put two of my mates in hospital and EVEN THOUGH IT’S ON 3 CCTVS!!!! The case has been adjourned THREE times and as STILL to be dealt with from last APRIL!!!)
Let’s arrest a load of 13 year olds…
Roll on the 21st…
It is, and always will be, about money.
And the 21st is the 4th attempt at having the thug tried at Leeds County Court… Not just the ‘END OF DAYS’ WHOAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Although, knowing my two mates, it’d be their luck…
Except the stupid fucks are trying to arrest their best customers.
Copyright infringement isn’t a criminal offence, it’s civil, so why the need for an IP “Crime” unit?
Copying and selling them on is criminal, but not because of copyright.
I wonder… Will they also be going after the likes of Samsung (for instance) for IP infringement every time apple start throwing their toys out of their pram?
“Copyright infringement isn’t a criminal offence, it’s civil”
…Word
So you’ll save £8 bn in lost copyright. But what the hell will happen to the economy when the money spent on Superfast broardband, high spec computers, portable Hard drives, Blank DVD, CD and Blu-Ray media goes away?
When will people understand that 1 illegally downloaded film/music/game does not equal 1 lost sale.
Im waiting for this advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
LOL! I couldn’t stop laughing.
Is it good or bad that I knew what this link was before I clicked on it?
That is absolutely disgusting, another reason to not live in London. I hope this never goes nationwide, what a disgrace.
It’s going to be a national unit, working on a national scale, operated by City of London police. So yeah, it’ll be nationwide.
This is and always will be completely unenforceable.
I bet everyone at TPB are laughing their arses off right now.
what? copyright law isnt a police matter its a civil one, why are they wasting police time on it?
I torrent all the time, yet I also buy more than people who don’t. I’ve spent over £4000 on my gaming habbit this year, tell me who else does that? I’ve built my PC and bought over 40 games this year on Steam alone.
Are game developers going to start calling me a pirate now? How I don’t support them?
I download torrents to either check games first because they don’t have demos now a lot of the time. That or because it is easier to torrent them than it is to get from the actual developer. I mean always online DRM is so annoying because their service always goes down and you cannot play. especially with Ubisoft. Sorry but I’ll torrent your game instead because it’s easier.
Maybe I download TV shows, yeah because here in the UK all the American TV shows don’t show over here, if they do they’re always so far behind. If you want to get money from me then put them on Netflix or something…. but you don’t it’s always like 2 seasons behind for us in there UK and Mythbusters is only up to series 4!
Am I gonna buy music? No I’m just gonna watch it on Youtube thanx. Who uses CDs any more? So I’m not going to go into a store and buy it. I’m not going to use iTunes because you can only get it from iTunes or what ever service you’re locked into that could shut down at any time.
Artists need to just sell torrenting rights on their Website. So if my ISP complains to me, I can show them I paid money to be able to torrent them. You can always easily get a torrent from anywhere and download and not be locked into any service and you can always get the codec you want.
The Industry needs to change tbh, stop blaming us for them not evolving.
Can you imagine it.
*dials 999*
Hello police please.
Hi I would like to report a crime.
Yes, my neighbor.
I just saw through his window and he has uTorrent open.
You’ll be here in 10?
Okay thank you.
K
Thnks
BB
No doubt it will be funding terrorism!