Illegal downloaders face Internet ban

Politicians have shit for brains and love totalitarianism (while claiming the democracy is the only way to go). If this rumor is true, then it is the music industry that runs the country. People will be convicted in absentia and without trial and simply banned from using the internet. Hmm... how would the ban be enforced? Told ya politicians have got brown matter rather than grey matter in their heads.

In other astoundingly stupid news - some Australian politicians have announced that they will require ISPs to filter ALL content and block access to pr0n. Uh-huh ... they just need serious supercomputing to run some filters and crack encryption, plus hire one monkey per customer they have so that someone can spy and make sure nothing is getting through. Now Australians in general aren't known for intellectual capacity so their politicians are a special kind of stupid.

From slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/14/1811207&from=rss

UK ISPs Want Copyright Holders to Pay if Users Sue
Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 14, @01:52PM
from the that-road-goes-both-ways dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes
"After the recent draft legislation in the UK, which would create a 'three strikes' policy to cut off anyone accused of online piracy, the ISPs are asking for liability protection when users are wrongly identified. They're worried that when users are wrongly blamed for piracy, as has happened in several widely-reported investigations already, they will turn around and sue their ISP. The ISPs, of course, think that the record companies — or whoever else wrongly identified the file sharers — should be the ones to pay out any such judgments. The British Phonographic Industry, however, disagrees and wants the ISPs to simply use their Terms of Service to disconnect people. Apparently, that means they think that the ToS should be able to remove any legal recourse people might otherwise have against being misidentified."