> The UK just ruled that streaming pirated media is just as illegal as downloading pirated media. They also upped the maximum sentence to 10 years in prison for infringement. This means that you can be sent to prison for 10 years if you lived in the UK and HBO was unhappy about you downloading / streaming Game of Thrones or etc
The UK has started cracking down hard on all forms of piracy, what does Sup Forums think about these new laws, is it a good thing or a bad thing?
>10 years
So, it'd probably be better if they just stole from a shop?
can you provide a source?
yeah but at least they're free from yurop now
How can they prove you're torrenting other than a police officer literally standing next to your computer watching you do it?
can I get arrested if I download or stream something and use a UK proxy. I don't want to be sent to Australia as a convict
the 10 years is if you are torrenting behind a proxy or just using torrents
I don't think its correct with the streaming becuase how you going to avoid that pit fall
you could easily be set up clicking a link
your ISP can see what you're torrenting, we have a law like that I've got friends who received letters because of it, at the third letter you get a fine. It doesn't work with streaming though, I don't know how they can catch you for that
Do it phaggott! That would be so delicious! Imagine the press coverage!
UK will forever treat 1984 as instruction manual.
Come on guys... You wouldn't download a car!
They can tell if you streamed 8mb or 800mb. So if you innocently click a link then click away it's np.
You do realise its mainly targeting the big seeders who put their content on tpb, if you leech then delete the torrent you wont get caught,they are after people like ettv or tcteam who seed a fuck ton of tv shows and other seeders who seed movies, I still download movies and tv shows to this day and have never been sent a letter from my isp, they have blocked some sites but I use operas built in vpn to get around it.
OP is a faggot
what if I suffer from narcolepsy and click the link and then fall asleep for 2 hours?
Thank god you guys are out of the EU then. This can't spread.
So it's illegal to watch anime streams now in the UK?
I don't get it, is using a proxy illegal? are torrents illegal in the UK now?
This is tyranny.
Access to free entertainment is a basic human right.
>United Kuckdom
>actually watching television or film in 2017 legally or illegally
Put the industry executives in jail instead. All they put out is mindless fucking gibberish. Kick all their heads in.
don't these niggas use seedbox's now a days
Downloading pirated media isn't illegal so I don't think you have your facts straight. Only distributing pirate media is illegal in the UK.
The UK has been "cracking down on piracy" for a decade plus and it has never, ever made any difference. They block known torrent trackers for piratebay and other large sites, but people just run endless proxies for these services.
Not to mention that it just drives people to private trackers which are generally small and well hidden and tend to be invite only, so are hard to get into for law enforcement. As people diffuse to smaller more private trackers the number of sites to block/monitor goes up, it's an endless problem that will never be stopped.
When traditional media dies completely and netflix and alike are the primary means of distributing movies/tv then piracy will come down, same way that steam did that for gaming.
yes used one for a few months and got a ratio that will last me years of never seeding again
Japnon is right. Get a job and this won't be a problem. The only ones losing out is the industry, because we're already enlightened enough not to buy their garbage movies.
They can't see what you are torrenting, they just watch who is downloading from a specific torrent or if you frequently go to a site that is known for piracy
You do realize that if there are no big seeders then it will kill a lot of torrenting, right? They realize that too.
Thank god we're a free country again.
#Brexit
#Karen
#ILoveMummy
Just use a VPN.
Fuck, how will we call our tpb proxy now??
This would have gone through regardless of the EU vote.
then your doctor will explain this to judge, no ?
Sup Forums likes fascists, more laws pls based UK!
Seriously, I wonder what the sentence is for stealing a car, I doubt it's ten years. This seems more like a scare tactic.
And how can they argue that it's me torrenting, especially if I don't live alone?
That means that if you accidentally stream(watch) YouTube video that has some copyrighted material they can technically put you to jail for 10 years and we all know that's very common on YouTube.
That's because UK totally ignores:
en.wikipedia.org
And when you ignore the fact they collect all your clicks and store it in database then they will think of ways to charge you money in future.
bbc.com
>Online pirates could face 10 years in jail
Yea honestly I hate where media is going. You won't be able to own anything in the future. You will just pay for the privilege of using it. They say piracy is the cause for this but it would have happened anyway.
Don't care.
Don't watch TV, movies anymore.
Even stopped Anime.
Just don't care about fantasy bullshit anymore.
Don't care about TV shows.
Havn't watch TV since Conan O'Brian was on the air.
Maybe it's because I'm 30.
That stuff was pretty important to me as a teenager and young adult.
But I no longer entertain the entertainers.
Don't care about music anymore, it's all shit.
Then you should just kill yourself you fagget.
>kill yourself if you dont partake in rotting your brain with the leftist propagandabox
??
they don't need to in France, whoever pays the ISP bill is responsible
because fuck the constitution, fuck the declaration of human rights, Hollywood's profits are more important
I agree with the TV and anime parts. I haven't seen a good series of either for a long time.
You do realize it's technically illegal in EU to spy on people? You are still in EU.
EU law:
eur-lex.europa.eu
>Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning them
UK has very shitty lawyers.
this is what happens when corporations have control over government because of capitalism.
I love VPNs
I'm in my 30s and I feel exactly the same way.
Fuck off, Normalfag.
People really need to be made aware of VPN and I2P especially nowadays.
en.wikipedia.org
What is this?
If they collect data from everybody then that includes VPN companies. All you doing is paying 2 times, once for internet, then for VPN and chances are VPN companies are owned by ISPs anyway.
I bet the BBC did this!
>Blahblahblah
Solution, use VPN/proxy.
There, case closed.
I dont believe the fucking ISP will sell out its fucking costumers.
>I use a server from the same country I'm from
Btfo codemonkey
They won't sell out but they'll be forced.
Still, smalltime users won't get targeted, it's the big dogs they're after.
It's exactly ISPs who sell out customers in USA and UK. It was the ISPs who paid republicans to vote against privacy in USA. You can even check how much money they got before voting.
theverge.com
>implying ISP doesn't sees to which VPN company you are connecting
If they don't block them, chances are they are working with them.
>10 years for copyright infringement
And how many years for rape?
10
Hours of community service
I'm too stupid to say if something is illegal. If it's online than it must be legal.
Shit watch out somalia
Can't see them blocking every vpn server when there are so many. I'm not paying my vpn service to not have alternative servers-if they didn't have countermeasures, no one would buy a subscription.
Also, twitch.tv will become illegal
>he doesn't realise that no one will go to prison for 10 years for pirating, ever.
what they say and what they do is 2 different things.
It's much easier to block VPN servers than to search for copyrighted material inside your stream. VPNs have static computers around globe, for which they pay money and that can very easily be blocked.
Rip look like am going to the poky
What about kodi
Thanks. Honestly? The way gaming has gone the past few years, piracy is starting to make sense again. Too much shit coming out. I've been burned a few times for a lot of $$$ because the game industry has turned to shit. Now we're getting back to a 'try it before you buy it' paradigm again.
Well at least they haven't banned child porn yet.
This is aimed to stop kodi
Honestly? So much of it is just flat out propaganda, I'm getting more and more sick of it myself. I haven't had cable in 10 years. TV is crap. I only watch movies and the occasional series, and play games. That has really fallen off for the few years, though.
Unlesa you're encrypting your stream (you're not) then your isp can see it.
>go to bong prison for streaming a documentary
>go to prison, convert to Islam to survive and come out to wage holy war on the infidel
Yeah, well, the Democrats are the ones who ended up killing privacy in the USA, so politics don't much matter. Hollywood owns the Dems, no other way to look at it.
I want the BBC to die
Honestly who even watches this crap? Game of thrones is a childish fantasy crap. It's pathetic fully grown adults watch this shit and believe themselves cultured. HBO is just trash TV. Go and read a book.
How the fuck is that supposed to stop kodi? Unless you're using p2p links there's nothing they can do about it.
>more authoritarian shit
>is it a good thing or bad thing?
You must be retarded
>what does Sup Forums think
Sup Forums thinks : " meh, VPN"
I haven't paid for any media in like 17 years and I've yet to even get a letter. Is this shit ever actually enforced?
I've never seen it enforced for anything less than "local man single-handedly seeds 100GB/s of Hollywood Blockbusters".
Did Pol Pot do anything wrong?
If you don't watch anything mainstream, you risk iterally nothing.
It's only uninteresting retarded mainstream normie shit that's even remotely enforced, and even then only for exceptional stuff like said.
In the UK stealing a car isn't even theft. It's known as TWOC - taking without owners consent, and the miscreants who steal your car, joyride for a few hours, then set it on fire never get a prison sentence.
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