> indeed, however the predominant use is piracy so like with handguns and > knives the legitimate use becomes collateral damage in the legislative > "war on piracy". > > The case for legitimate use of P2P was somewhat undermined when the > likes of the BBC decided it was cheaper to pay for bandwidth as the > price of the latter had fallen.
Did anyone see Panorama recently discussing the bill? It's still on iPlayer if anyone's interested. I laughed when the "tech" person examined the family's hard drive and discovered a copy of uTorrent on it, which is used for downloading copyrighted material. Of course this was a damning piece of evidence!!! No clarification that this is actually a legitimate piece of software that has just been used for illegitimate purposes. There's not just Open Source software available on Bittorent. Some bands share their music this way. Malc -- Technical copy-editor & proofreader KDE Proofreading Team KDE British English Translation Team http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=en_GB Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FriendlyAtheist Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
